Duplicating Bad Hard Drive

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I have a in-accessible 120GB hard drive with bad sectors, I am
planning to try recovering the data with Spinrite but I don't want to
recover to the original drive, in case I corrupt the data on it. What
is the best way of duplicating the bad drive on a new, larger drive?.
Is it OK to use a larger drive, or should I use one the same size?.

(PC was set up this way when problems occurred).
HD1 is C:OS,
HD2 is D:(CD Drive), E:(20GB), F:(20GB), G:(30GB), H:(40GB), I:(10GB),
J:(external DVD/USB writer drive).

System specs:
OS: Win. XP Pro.
File System: NTFS
MB: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1.6
Ram: 256 Meg Crucial Memory
Primary HD: 40 GB Western Digital Caviar SE
Secondary HD: 120 GB Western Digital Caviar SE

Ajak. :(
 
ajak said:
I have a in-accessible 120GB hard drive with bad sectors, I am
planning to try recovering the data with Spinrite
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but I don't want to recover to the original drive, in case I corrupt the data on it.
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Yet that is how it works. What exactly do you think Spinrite does?
What is the best way of duplicating the bad drive on a new, larger drive?.
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What's the point? Spinrite doesn't do anything on a perfect drive.
Is it OK to use a larger drive, or should I use one the same size?.
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None of the above.
You cannot clone a drive while maintaining the state of defectiveness of the source drive.
 
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