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jdc2000 - a very belated thank you for your tips about making a bootable CD (which I have now) and also about using the Arconis "ignore bad sectors" when taking a image from a problem drive. I have...

Thanks for the clarifications. I will try and see if I can take the image of the damaged HDD from the USB adapter from the installed Arconis this weekend. I hope this can be done without having to...

I have already use the spare HDD and used it to restore a earlier image on it and I am using it now to write this. But the imagie was over a year old and some of the files and folders that were...

jdc2000 - Do you mean:
1) I have to first reinstall back the old faulty HDD and use Arconis to try and boot up the old HDD, then take the image of the o/s
or
2) I can just use the current new...

jdc2000 - thanks for your reply. I only see it now. In that case, I will give it a try. I think I did get a brierf message saying some problem with the MBR before I changed the HDD.
Question is how...

Thank you for the clarifications and for saving me a lot of wasted time to try and image it and reimage it on the new HDD, Have a good weekend.

Thanks for your advise. But I thought the failure of the HDD is the mechanical part of he drive, not the saofware ? So I was wondering if the software is affecte4d when the HDD mechanics failed.

One of my laptop, a Sony VGN, 32 bits, HDD failed and I had replaced it with another HDD. But I can still see my C and D drive on the failed HDD if I connect it to another laptop using a USB adapter....