Today I found out that there were bad sectors detected on my Lenovo t430.
I backed up folders, but I wanted to create a system image and put it on my 1TB seagate harddrive.
The system image was backing up fine until the last part when it gave me an error and said that it failed. Apparently there was an issue with the I/O ports (error 0x8078012D)
It told me to run scndsk for the external hard drive which i did and it seemed fine.
So the question is… Did the error result from the image trying to access the bad sectors? Or was it the external hard drive like the error message seems to think.
It still stored most of the system image on the disk (like 240/275 GBs it was suppose to store). I imagine it is now partially imaged. I'm running a new image now.
Also… Does this mean that 35GB of my hard drive is corrupt with bad sectors… And that's how much I will lose if I attempt to use the Lenovo Bad Sectors repair tool?
Or does the system image stop when it gets to the first bad sector (and therefore it doesn't reflect possible good sectors that could come after it).
Some help would be appreciated. I don't want to lose all my program files that I need for classes tomorrow.