when i had my problem, i was using acronis, and acronis even has a checkbox option "to skip bad sectors". the issue for the cloning software would be reading and extracting that little bit of information, contained in a bad sector. there should be absolutely no chance of that happening. What worries me most, though, is, if I copy the bad sectors to my new hard drive, is there any chance, this will happen?Ĭlick to expand.a bad sector is a physical characteristic of that particular hard drive.
So today I created an image separately of the drive, the size of the backup file is the same as the drive, 296 GB.Īs you say: now comes the hard part, where I need to swap the old hard drive with the new one, but I think my neighbor can help me. From what I could tell from the user guide, this just mentioned image is necessary along with a full image of the drive that I am going to replace, the C: drive. I suppose it was compressed, because the backup file was supposed to be 297 GB, but only turned out to end at 179 GB. First of all I had to create a Macrium rescue media, which I did, checked it, and it boots up on the dvd on which I installed it and opens up with the Macrium reflect program, ready to restoreĮarlier I did this: Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore windows. I found this user guide:Īnd decided I wanted to do imaging instead. computers are way too much fun.Īnd if i have miss-spoke on any points, hopefully some one geekier than me will clarify the thought process. it found the bad sectors, was able to move the info in them to different sectors, then labeled them as bad so they would never be used again, and that process took overnight to complete. and the only way i was able to "fix" the bad sectors was by using an expensive program called spin rite by grc. that has happened to me before, and i was not able to make an image of the drive until i fixed the bad sectors.
definitely give it a try, but with a hard drive that has a few bad sectors, the cloning software might choke and stop when it reaches the bad sectors. The only thing to keep in mind with cloning. Has lots of different options for cloning a hard drive.
just take pictures and document the whole process, it's amazing how many little screws these manufacturers use.Īs far as using Macrium Reflect, lots of people swear by it, i tried it once, and it was not intuitive to my thinking. i watched my brother swap out hard drives, one time, on his laptop, and that is something that i could not do for myself. then the fun begins because you now have to open up your laptop to swap out the hard drive. then clone the laptop's old hard drive to the new drive via USB. From reading that post, since you have a laptop, you would have to connect the new hard drive externally with USB.
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