[Bug-ddrescue] Question about running ddrescue on a drive with bad sectors

[Tom Williams]

I'm running ddrescue right now to transfer data from a 200GB SATA hard
drive formatted as NTFS with 8kb in bad sectors to a 320GB SATA hard
drive that's clean.  This is the second time I'm running this process.

The first time I did the transfer, I noticed the 320GB drive was
reported as having 8kb in bad sectors like the original 200GB drive when
I run chkdsk on Windows XP.

Should I expect bad sectors to be "transferred" to the new drive, as I
noticed in my case?

I don't know which version of ddrescue I'm running because it's still
running but it's on the Trinity 3.4 build 367 rescue CD.

The command I ran the first time was:

ddrescue /dev/sda /dev/sdb

The command that is running right now is:

ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sda /dev/sdb

Thanks!

Peace...

Tom