Hallo Michael,
a really bad situation :-(
This is one if the scenarios where I love good old COMPAQ's construction
of the "hybrid" having a detachable keyboard which unfortunately has
been abonded up by HP :-( :-(

Michael Moser wrote:

[TI]
> But apparently it doesn't leave out the
> files/blocks marked as bad during the chkdsk and so, during that copy
> operation, it fails and at that point then asks "... Abort / Ignore /
> Ignore All ?".
>
> Now, if I could select "Ignore" or "Ignore All" I guess I could save
> the rest of my disk's content,

I'm not sure how TI (which I have been using for quite some time) will
handle the bad sectors - never had that so far. But for sure it would be
worth a try.

TI is really powerful. A while ago I was able to backup (no image) the
data from a seriously bad HDD of my son's computer.
Not even Bart's PE was able to see the bad drive attached to my desktop
machine. TI, however - run from it's emergency CD - was able see most
of the data and so I could save them.

> Any idea, what one could do here?

You'll have to it from some other computer.
In addition to Jan's valuable advice:
Instead of using a USB-enclosure for the notebook-drive you might just
buy an IDE-adapter for attaching the notebook drive to a desktop
computer (really cheap <!!>).

> And I *hate* the idea, of having to restart
> essentially with a factory restored machine...

I fully understand this.
But as you have TI, didn't you save the system to image-files from time
to time?
Doing this at least once the system and the programs are installed, IMO
is a true must.

Rainald