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William Hite
Posted on Thursday, Jan 10, 2002 - 14:56:   
The clone disk tool is able to recover from disk read errors. There is not an option to keep the data it has managed to read. When it creates an image file it seems to set the entire sector to zeros.
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Stefan Fleischmann (Admin)
Posted on Thursday, Jan 10, 2002 - 15:07:   
It is always entire sectors that are either readable or not. WinHex cannot read a damaged sector partially.
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William Hite
Posted on Thursday, Jan 10, 2002 - 16:53:   
Ok. But when cloning "disk to disk" there is an option to "write zero bytes for damaged sectors" or not.

If one chooses not to fill with zeros what will happen for bad sectors?
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Stefan Fleischmann (Admin)
Posted on Thursday, Jan 10, 2002 - 17:02:   
As explained in the program help, WinHex will then leave the destination sector that corresponds to a damaged source sector untouched.
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William Hite
Posted on Thursday, Jan 10, 2002 - 17:04:   
thanks - must read help more carefully.

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