Scandisk Incorrect

Hi all
I have an interesting problem on win98Se, I have imaged a drive that had bad sectors onto a brand new drive and the Scandisk information now shows that the new drive has the same ammount of bad sectors as the old one, even after a through test.

I am guessing that Scandisk thinks that as it is an exact image of the old drive when I transferred the image, it also marked the new drive with bad sectors and there is no way to change it to show that there are infact no bad sectors and as Scandisk ignores the bad sectors it wont replace the log of them.

I have changed the registry setting to allow scandisk to recheck those" bad sectors" but sadly forgot to turn off the automatically fix option thus it did just remarked them as bad when they are infact good.

I am running HDD Regenerator at this time and so far it has found nothing wrong, I hope it can sort this problem out as the person whom I fitted the drive for will think that the new one is duff too otherwise.

Has anyone got a an idea of how to reset the scandisk log? I have by the way deleted it several times and the same info comes back.

I may have a duff new drive but the ammount of bad sectors is identical on the new drive to the old one and that would be some coincidence if it were true.

Regards

tel33

 

It would help to know what software was used for imaging.

 

It was Drive Image 5

The HDD Regenerator found no bad sectors on the drive as I thought it would not so this is a logging issue with Win98se.

I am going to use the Maxtor Powermax disk to check the hard drive too but I have a feeling this will come to nothing also.

 

DI5 is said to be limited in ability. Suggest you find someone who has norton's ghost to image the old drive, or purchase an old edition of nortons system works 2003 online - it has ghost2003 which is excellent. Ghost does not normally include disk errors in it's image unless one specifically tells it to do so.

According to M$, "ScanDisk usually cannot repair errors in the system area ", which I assume includes a bad FAT where the sector errors are recorded and included in he DI5 image.

 

Maxtors own Powermax diagnostics again proved to me (As I thought it would do) that the hard drive is in perfect shape and there are no bad sectors present.

Yes I agree with you on the ability of Scandisk being unable to repair bad sectors, I think though that XP can do this but I cannot take anymore time on moving the drive and putting it to test on a FAT32 xp machine.

I have also been looking around on the net and have found several other people that seem to have the same problem as I do that have used Drive Image 5, they too seem also to have cloned bad sectors which is not a good thing really.

I think as time has now run out and the guy wants it back tonight I am going to have to warn him that the the reading on any Scandisk he does now is going to be misleading and that there is nothing more I can do now.

I do have the newest Nortons Ghost aswell, sadly I never used it preferring the old faithful Drive Image 5 program I have always used as time is a premium in this case.

Its just one of those strange things that occur that no answer can be found unless you have to start over and clone it again to another clean drive and that is now just not an option, plus it takes so long for a full scandisk to confirm the drive is free of bad sectors (6 hours) that I just cannot be bothered anymore to check it.

Anyway, thanks for you help on this at least I know the drive is ok (Well I know it tested ok about 6 times!!!)

Cheers
tel33