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Newly cloned hard drive video garbled

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Cloning hard drive at the very end there were bad sectors and I told it to ignore Acronis said it successfully finished but when I boot from the newly cloned drive after post the video is garbled. Any ideas?

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Hello Mike,

Welcome to our Forum, we're glad to greet you here! I understand your concern, and will do my best to assist you.

It looks like the corrupted blocks that got clones contained the information related to the video. We'd advise you to try the following steps: 

  1. Boot from the original drive
  2. Go to to Start -> Run -> cmd
  3. Issue there the following command:
    chkdsk /f /r
    and reboot the machine
  4. Upon booting Windows will check the drive for bad blocks and fix them

After that please perform the same operation with the target drive, and clone the HDDs once again. This should fix the problem.

If problem remains, please gather Acronis Report, submit a case with the information attached, and let us know it's number.

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you!

Mike - another suggestion, I've encountered too many drives where CHKDSK would NOT resolve the issue. I use Hard Disk Sentential Pro for some HD recovery, drive testing and to monitor the drive health and I also use SpinRite to test and recovery. If your drive has sever issues the test runs can take a LONG time. I just processed a 2TB drive that had a few issues and it ran for 56 hours. I've had some drives with numerous problems and the worst that was repairable took two weeks to run.

I'd suggest that you NEVER put a drive into service before you (1) run Hard Disk Sentential at the "Reinitialize disk surface" level, this will destroy the data on the drive and this is why it is the first step. When it finds bad sectors it will force the drive to mark these sectors unusable. (2) If you want to be super save, also run SpinRite at level 4, it will NOT destroy the data on the drive but it will force the drive to mark bad sectors unusable.

No amount of testing can guarantee that you have a drive that will last years. HDS will monitor and project the life of your drive, this is the best you can do.

Once you have tested/repaired the drive then use TI to recover just the damaged file.