Regenerating a Bad HDD

[Nerve]

Help! Please, I have a 200GB HDD, it's quite old though. . I got a new one and I had so much stuff I wanted to backup, I tried using Hiren's Boot CD 9.0 to clone my Data from a 40GB to the 100GB and its quite slow, besides that - I see some Red marks and untop it shows error(s). Probably Bad Clusters.
Does the HDD still have any hope?
Can anything be done?

[Raymond]

I've just tried cloning a 120GB to 250GB. 120GB is PATA and 250GB is SATA. It takes nearly 13 hours to complete cloning.

Later I tried 250GB to 250GB both SATA. It takes less than 2 hours!

The type of connection/interface will affect the cloning speed.

If you have bad sector, just try cloning it. You might loose some files there and also I wouldn't advice you to continue using the hard drive with bad sector.

[kwfine]

hi !
I have a 40GB USB HDD purchased a few months ago.
I was copying some files to it one day, but there was a sudden failure of electrical power supply. WHen I turned on my PC again, and tried to open the folder which I had already copied my files to, an error popped out...
Now that there are files that can't be retrieved, I am gonna format it, but not sure if there exists any bad sector.
Could you recommend a tool for me, Raymond?

BTW, what do you mean by cloning a HDD, Raymond?
that's really new to me.

[Raymond]

Try running scandisk and it'll detect if there are bad sectors or not.

Cloning a HDD means creating an exact copy of the hard drive either to another hard drive or you can make it into an image file.

[kwfine]

Thanks alot, raymond!