I purchased a new 300 gig HDD, and partitioned it as a 60gig and a 220gig. I moved most of my files to the new drive in order to reduce the size of the operating system. I ended up with just 30 gig. Then I took a Ghost image & saved it to the new drive. The idea was to put the 30gig on the new 60gig partition, but Ghost keeps failing to put the image back. I then tried maxblast to copy the 30gig C to the new 60gig F This completed, but said 3 files that were not needed could not be copied. I tried to boot from this, but windows started, then just displayed an XP logo and did not load the OS. I even tried booting from a windows CD and using the recovery console, but it did not recognise a valid windows system. (I should have tried to make a new boot ini, but did not) For some reason my 30gig on my 200gig C had now gone to 90gig. I used tree size pro to look at why, but it stated 30gig, I used chkdsk from the recovery console, but it remained the same. Nortons disk doctor now shows 60gig of bad sectors! If I try and use Ghost, it wants to copy 90gig, all I want to copy is the good 30gig. Anyone got any ideas how to fix the bad 60gig, and just leave the good 30gig, so I can have a go at getting Ghost to make another image. If I took an image at the moment (even assuming I had the space), I would end up with 60gig of crap (I think) In short I want to transfer my 30gig operating system to a partition on a new drive, but at present it is too big. If I use Maxblast again, will it try and copy bad sectors as Ghost wants to do?
