I checked my HD with Seagate "Windows tester".
It failed, and refered me to SeagateTools (DOS).

I had known "Smart" had a sector it was "sort of"
going to get around to re-allocating... (And 5 it "had"...)

The Seagate utility told me which one is bad now and offered
to "fix it", meaning (by their specific definition) "erase it and
replace it" -- with a blank one...  I "passed" on that offer, for now.

It said the sector is LBA   45,077,086.
Device is 48 Bit Addressed - Max LBA 390,721,968
("C"), starts at "63" and ends at "61,432,560"
so it seem like it is on the "system, boot" partition...

I realize the file (sector)  is likely toasted, but I "hate" utilities
that find stuff and then fix it "anonymously"...

I tried Acronis TI9 and it made an image of "C" with no
problems. (I was not expecting that.)

It is a (200G)- 186.31G (all)-NTFS  drive running WinXP-Pro.
There are three partitions,
29.29G,
78.13G,
78.89G

Is there a way to find out what file that sector belongs to?
Would Ghost "give it up" during an image creation?

                    TIA,
                                   Rick Glazier

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