Can't reinstall XP because of bad sectors on disk.

From: Allen (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:02:29 -0700

I can not load XP because there are bad sectors on the
disk where the prior XP install was. The installation
hangs while checking for prior versions of Windows and the
disk heads just rattle over the bad sectors.
How do I get around this to load XP in a good area of the
disk?

Booting in MS DOS works fine and I can read the disk
without any problems.

I have tried running ghost 2003 to clone the disk, but it
keeps crashing when it tries to read the directory.

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