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Issues cloning my HDD to SSD
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I have been trying to clone my HDD to an SSD. It gets about 71% done and I get a message about a bad sector. Thought it was on SSD drive so I tried to format it. I can only format using quick format. I have tried this twice with same message which leads me to believe the bad sector is on the HDD. Is there another route I showed or can go to get this done?
Thank you
I have been trying to clone my HDD to an SSD. It gets about 71% done and I get a message about a bad sector. Thought it was on SSD drive so I tried to format it. I can only format using quick format. I have tried this twice with same message which leads me to believe the bad sector is on the HDD. Is there another route I showed or can go to get this done?
Thank you
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It appears there was an error of some kind fixed on my HDD. However, I cannot see the SSD in my file explorer. If I go to disk manager, I can see it but I cannot do anything to it. I was going to try and format the SSD and start from scratch
I use rawcopy. If there's a bad sector it slows down but doesn't stop. www.roadkil.net (free, but generally requires you to slave both old and new drives and run rawcopy from a different Windows system)
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Are there instructions with that program? I am not familiar with slaving. How would I go about running windows from a different system?
Most cloning software will refuse to clone a defective partition => that's not necessarily a "bad" thing ... do you really want to clone a system with known errors ??
What are you using to do the clone with?
And what OS is on the drive you're trying to clone?
If you have install media, you may want to just do a clean install of the OS on your SSD. With an SSD, that should generally be a fairly quick process -- and while it's certainly a pain to have to reinstall all your apps, it's nice to KNOW they're "clean" after the install, without having to worry about just what data is BAD on a clone with known errors.
What are you using to do the clone with?
And what OS is on the drive you're trying to clone?
If you have install media, you may want to just do a clean install of the OS on your SSD. With an SSD, that should generally be a fairly quick process -- and while it's certainly a pain to have to reinstall all your apps, it's nice to KNOW they're "clean" after the install, without having to worry about just what data is BAD on a clone with known errors.
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I do have install media. I have windows 7 install media but this drive has windows 10 which I upgraded for free. I would like to keep my windows 10 somehow.
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probably the bad sector comes from the old HDD
and as said above - no need for cloning -
be sure to have a good backup of your data first !
and as said above - no need for cloning -
be sure to have a good backup of your data first !
How full is the source drive? Did you try cloning only with the used sectors? Most clone tools have an option for that.
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Run the disk manufacturer's diagnostic tool on your original HD. If there are repairable bad sectors, it will probably offer to repair them. Allow it to. If the diagnostic comes out OK, after that open an elevated CMD prompt and use chkdsk DriveLetter: /f /r and answer the next Question with Y so it does the process after a reboot. Do that for all the drive-Letters on your original disk. This will repair and file-system corruptions. Depending on the size of the disk, and the severity and number of corruptions it finds, this can take a long time.
Once that is done, reattach the SSD and install the SSD's manufacturer's utility. Use it to diagnose the SSD, and also to install the newest firmware on it.
After that you should be ready to clone. I'd recommend Paragon's Migrate OS 5.0, which is built specifically for moving OS's from large spinning disks to smaller SSD's.
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/migrate-OS-to-SSD/
If the disk diagnostic fails and can't repair what is bad, then just download the newest version of Windows 10, create a bootable USB stick from the iso, boot from that stick and do a clean installation on the SSD. To get the iso to the stick, use WinSetupFromUSB, and make sure you use the utility to format the stick to fat32:
http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/
Make sure your disk controller in the BIOS is set to AHCI mode, and not compatible or IDE mode. You might also have to extract the controller's driver to a USB stick, should the Windows 10 installer not find the SSD by itself.
Once that is done, reattach the SSD and install the SSD's manufacturer's utility. Use it to diagnose the SSD, and also to install the newest firmware on it.
After that you should be ready to clone. I'd recommend Paragon's Migrate OS 5.0, which is built specifically for moving OS's from large spinning disks to smaller SSD's.
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/migrate-OS-to-SSD/
If the disk diagnostic fails and can't repair what is bad, then just download the newest version of Windows 10, create a bootable USB stick from the iso, boot from that stick and do a clean installation on the SSD. To get the iso to the stick, use WinSetupFromUSB, and make sure you use the utility to format the stick to fat32:
http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/
Make sure your disk controller in the BIOS is set to AHCI mode, and not compatible or IDE mode. You might also have to extract the controller's driver to a USB stick, should the Windows 10 installer not find the SSD by itself.
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Thank you very much for the help. For whatever reason, I had to download the media installation file from a different computer. Everything worked fine.
Use the Error Checking utility built in to Microsoft Windows.
This will deal with the issue if the bad block is located in a partition. If the bad block is not located in a partition, it'll take a more complex tool to deal with it.