Kevin, On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Kevin Krieser<k_krieser at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On Jun 7, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > In my case, I was hoping it would avoid the bad sector since the bad > sectors were in free space. So the hope was that it would skip it. > Bad disks are a difficult case, and not a reason to avoid a tool > unless it claims to be able to handle it. One option is not using a cloning tool but a backup & rescue utility. http://www.mondorescue.org/ might work, it doesn't backup the whole disk but tries to recreate the original data. I use it for cloning CentOS/RHEL servers and creating bare-bones rescue disks. Since it only reads and writes back files, it won't go through the free bad blocks. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org