Need help!

[Dudefoxlive]

Hi, so i am working on a Laptop for a friend and it is a toshiba and the hard drive is failing.  i want to make an image of the drive with the recovery partition and all that but when i try it looks like the recovery partition has bad sectors and wont let me backup unless i fix them.  How can i have chkdsk check that drive and fix the errors?  i need to know.

[samcool55]

I would connect the drive to another PC and backup everything ASAP.

Depending what kind of bad sectors it is the drive is dying and can actually completely die any minute.

 

I mean the bad sectors can be caused by physical damage which is impossible to fix or just corruption due to whatever and a wipe might fix it.

[Dudefoxlive]

1 minute ago, samcool55 said:

I would connect the drive to another PC and backup everything ASAP.

Depending what kind of bad sectors it is the drive is dying and can actually completely die any minute.

 

I mean the bad sectors can be caused by physical damage which is impossible to fix or just corruption due to whatever and a wipe might fix it.

he already reset the laptop cause it would not boot anymore.  he is going to get a new hard drive and i want to basically copy all the partitions over.