Hard disk copy software

[Appzalien]

Here's a conversation about getting hidden partitions to copy. Someone mentions gddrescue as well.
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...partition.aspx

Hope it can help you decide, the one guy seems to really know his stuff.

You might want to save your data to an external drive for safe keeping. Anything that was associated with a bad sector will probably be corrupt, including (possibly) sections of the hidden partition.