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To: vireya who wrote (75579)	6/2/2011 9:50:17 AM
From: B.K.Myers	Respond to of 110587

The 4 bad sectors imply that your hard drive is probably starting to die. It is possible that they have been bad since the computer was new but regardless it could cause problems for a disk imaging program. True Image version 11 might have an option to ignore the bad sectors. Check the program options. It appears XP does not log the chkdsk report to the event viewer for external hard drives. You could try to run check disk from DOS and redirect the output report to your C drive. I haven't tried this so I don't know if it will work. Click Start. Click Run. Type cmd or command and press enter Type chkdsk d: >c:\chkdiskd.txt and press enter Type exit and press enter Then double click My Computer, double click the C: drive and look for the chkdiskd.txt file. If you find the file, double click on it to see the report. B.K.