more about bad sectors

I may want to use ghost with the following switches to copy my drive
with bad sectors, but I don't understand the difference. Can someone
please explain the difference? Which one is more appropriate, or should
I combine them and use both? It sorta sounds like the BFC switch
examines the target, but having read other newsgroup messages that
doesn't make sense.


-BFC
Handles bad FAT clusters when writing to disk.
If this switch is set, and the target partition is FAT, Ghost checks
for and skips up to 500 bad sectors, and creates a file that lists the
bad sectors. This option may substantially slow Ghost operations.
Without this switch, Ghost aborts when Ghost encounters a bad sector.

-FRO
Forces Ghost to continue cloning even when the source disk
contains bad blocks.

Thanks,
Irwin

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