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Has anybody managed to clone a Win10 disk with bad sectors?

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Win10 Home x64 and ATI 2016, HP Pavilion g7 laptop. I think the disk is failing as it takes about 30' from boot, for the laptop to become usable.

 

I have tried the following:

 

1. Scheduked the disk for chkdsk /f /r at next startup, inside the laptop.

2. Put the disk in external USB enclosure, on a desktop PC running Win 10 Pro 32bit and run chkdsk /f /r from there.

3. Put the disk in external USB enclosure on a desktop PC running WinXP Pro 32bit and run chkdsk /f /r from there.

1a + 2a. Put a new disk in the laptop, the old connected via USB and started the laptop via Acronis bootable media, to Clone withAcronis 64bit. I received errors "Failed to red sector xxxx, and clicked ignore. Final message, "The cloning ended with errors".

3a. Put the new disk in the laptop, the old connected via USB and started the laptop via Acronis bootable media, to Clone with Acronis 64bit. I received no errors and  the final message, "The cloning ended succesfuly".

None of the above schemes could boot the laptop from the internal new disk. "A disk read error occured, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot"

 

Any ideas?

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YannisA, if you have got disk read errors / bad sectors then it is difficult to predict what data on the drive may be affected by these errors and how this will impact on the ability to both clone and boot the drive.

Rather than cloning the drive, I would recommend making a full disk backup image so that you can try to recover individual partitions and your user data.