Help me replace a bad disk, reduce partition size?
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:35 pm
Hi - As noted in another thread, I have a disk that runs great, IFW backups run clean, but the WD disk tool (Data Lifeguard) says it has a lot of bad sectors (they were revealed when I updated to W10, I have since reverted to WIN 7). Currently, the drive is 2 partitions C: 500GB (60GB in use), d:1.5TB. I backup only the C partition (this morning full backup ran/validated clean, so I assume I'm just not using the bad sectors, yet), and use D for storage (mostly of IFW backups- which still validate, so I assume they're ok).
I ordered a new WD Blue 2TB disk. I believe what I do is
1) backup my C partition again (to another physical disk in the system).
2) connect the new drive (no formatting needed)
3) restore the backup onto the new drive using IFW
4) Boot off the new drive
5) Create the D partition on the new drive to fill the rest of the new drive (I can do this using Windows Disk Management? Bootit NG? )
6) Copy the contents of the old D partition to the new D partition, validate all backups on the new partition. (if any don't validate - they're lost).
7) pull and junk the old drive.
Do I have this right? I'm particularly worried if I'm missing a step around #3.
Also - if I want to reduce the C partition from 500GB to, say, 200GB, is that easy to do as part of this process?
Thanks!
/j
PS - Alternately, Should i use something like this? http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/ It says it deals with bad sectors....
I ordered a new WD Blue 2TB disk. I believe what I do is
1) backup my C partition again (to another physical disk in the system).
2) connect the new drive (no formatting needed)
3) restore the backup onto the new drive using IFW
4) Boot off the new drive
5) Create the D partition on the new drive to fill the rest of the new drive (I can do this using Windows Disk Management? Bootit NG? )
6) Copy the contents of the old D partition to the new D partition, validate all backups on the new partition. (if any don't validate - they're lost).
7) pull and junk the old drive.
Do I have this right? I'm particularly worried if I'm missing a step around #3.
Also - if I want to reduce the C partition from 500GB to, say, 200GB, is that easy to do as part of this process?
Thanks!
/j
PS - Alternately, Should i use something like this? http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/ It says it deals with bad sectors....