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failing hard drive 'corrupted new drive??

on a win 7 computer, the hard drive was failing based on messages in windows and SMART tests.

I cloned the hard drive's data to a new hard drive.

the new drive worked fine for a couple weeks, now when coming out of sleep, we get a message that the hard drive is failing. But smart tests say it's ok.

could a file have been corrupted from the failing hard drive then the corrupted file is copied over to the new drive and the system things that corruption is a failed drive rather than a bad file?

thanks!

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Thomas Mulkey

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rindi

SMART is only a very basic, built-in test of the disk. Run the disk's manufacture's diagnostic on it. That will give you a more reliable result. If that turns out fine, run a chkdsk /f /r on the partitions on your disk to fix any file-system corruptions.

Of course it is possible that you copied errors from the old disk to the new.

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sorry, my bad.

using HD Tune, it shows failure on the smart page (see attached), but passes the error scan.

This is a 1 year old drive I had on the shelf, sorry, not brand new.

that smart data doesn't come over with a cloning, right?
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nobus

in such cases HDDregenerator can help - it fixed many drives for me : http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html

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Predrag Jovic

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noxcho

Run the scan with WD Diag tool (Data Lifeguard Diagnostic) on it. You can get it on Western Digital web site here: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=608&sid=3&lang=en

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Thomas Mulkey

When I see re-allocated sectors, I replace the drive before I loose my data.

nobus

i have been running with "repaired " drives for years; depending on what's wrong, they can just be up to 100% after running HDDReg