Can I Mirror HDD which has bad sectors

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I have a Win2k server has one SATA hard drive. This server had problems and
wouldn't boot until I ran chkdsk to repair sector damage. I would like to
add a second Hard drive and create a software RAID 1 mirror for redundancy.
Will this cause a problem? I ask because as far as I know creating a mirror
copies sector by sector.
 
d krage said:
I have a Win2k server has one SATA hard drive. This server had problems and
wouldn't boot until I ran chkdsk to repair sector damage. I would like to
add a second Hard drive and create a software RAID 1 mirror for redundancy.
Will this cause a problem? I ask because as far as I know creating a mirror
copies sector by sector.
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Running a server disk with bad sectors is a bad idea.
Replace it while you can, then build your mirror.
 
sounds like:

living on a planet with declining ozone is a bad idea:

Go live on another planet immediately!
 
If you used chkdsk, all the damaged sectors are marked and no more used. I
would sudjest to ghost your disk to a new one and then use a second disk to
create a mirror.
 
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