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cloning hard drive

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wpeng

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I've been trying to get a new hard drive for a while. I really don't want to install a clean operating system and have to reinstall everything, so I got a Seagate at Wal-Mart and cloned successfully. I found a better price though, so I wiped and returned the hard drive.

I finally got a new Seagate today, and in the middle of cloning my drive, an error occurs. I try it again, and the same problem pops up. I was wondering if there was a good free utility that will check the integrity of my new hard drive (writing zeros and all that). I don't know too much about stuff like that.

Thanks in advance.
 
It sounds like you have bad sectors on your old drive.

There is an option in Norton to ignore any errors during copy. Look in the option settings and look for something like "Ignore errors during drive copy".

I have the command line switch set on for that option on the copy of Ghost I carry around in my kit because most clone jobs I do for customers are from bad drives.
 
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