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Could my drive have too many errors to clone? Help

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Not sure what happened. My WD 1tb internal drive started to act up on Monday with no prior symptoms. I posted on a windows forum and found out that some sectors were bad. They told me to make an image of the disc ASAP and get rid of it. I am using my old seagate 250 GB drive in the meantime which works fine. I am running Acronis off of that "good drive"

I finally found an old 1TB USB drive-reformatted it. I was going to clone the D drive (the bad internal one) to the external 1 GB USB drive so when I get my new internal drive tomorrow I could clone it back.

I tried 4 times today. I keep getting an error message. Could my drive be "too bad" to clone? Despite the fact it is bad I can at least get to the main screen and run programs off of it if I choose to boot from it. It's not totally toast.

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Hello James,
Yes, you might not be able to back up / clone a drive that has too many bad sectors, or one that is in the process of failing. Either way, you should follow the recommend steps for cloning if this is what you want to try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oZwa6RDABk