Does anyone know how to fix bad sectors?  I was trying to backup my harddrive using Ghost 9.0 and True Image 8.0 and both give me a bad sector error.  

This is a dell dimension 3000 running xp pro.  I have the operating system installed onto a internal ide, partitioned into 2 drives, c: and f:  I backup to a usb hard drive (g:)

I do not have a current backup image.  I formatted the external because I thought that maybe it was causing the problems.  

I tried to uninstall and then reinstall Ghost, but the same thing keeps happening.  

I have attached screenshots from both applications containing the errors.

The only other thing I can think of, is that I believe this started after I deleted the asp.net user from control panel -> users

I reinstalled asp.net and replaced the asp.net user, but am still getting the errors.

I have also tried a defrag and that too did not help.

tierror

ghosterror

Anybody have any other idears?  This is a learning opportunity for me, and everyone else, too.

Thanks,
Jim

Jim,

To fix bad sectors you have to run chkdsk:

Start/run/cmd

When the window opens:  chkdsk c: /r

You will get prompted to run when Windows restarts, so say yes to that.  The /r parameter will cause chkdsk to read all sectors and try to recover any bad ones.  (try chkdsk /?  to see all options)

You should also repeat with all your other drives to be sure.

jf38081

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When you are composing your message, down below the message typing box there is this check box:  

Disable Smilies:

Or, you can add a space after the *:* like this ( g: ) rather than this (g:) (Hint:  if you hit the *Quote* button for a particular posting, you can see the actual *coding* that was used to create that particular appearance on the final posting).

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This forum software appears to use slightly non-standard web page coding for some of it's features.  Again, on the message composing page, there's two lines of *

Add YABBC tags:

* above the message composition box--one is for *Insert Image* and it uses this coding (put the URL in the middle of the two code symbols) :  


This is what I use to list links:

[url=ADDRESS HERE][/url]

(I replaced the *[* with *{* in front of *size=3]* and *u]* so you can see the whole line--again, if you hit *Quote*, you can see the actual coding--I keep a WordPad document with frequently used coding and links handy when replying:

[url=ADDRESS HERE]{size=3]{u]TITLE HERE[/u][/size][/url]

You should have above your posting, the option *Modify* next to the *Quote* option--you can go back and change something that's not to your liking.

In fact, I'm not sure why I have 2 partitions.  It seemed like a good idea when I was installing, but now I have twice as much to worry about, and I'm not real sure what the benefit is. I did move my documents to the f:, maybe thats what it was.
J