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Can I still clone a drive if Acronis is finding bad sectors?

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Hello.

See title. I am trying to clone a HDD to my new SSD. The HDD is dying, which is why I'm doing this. I have no intention of using the HDD after I finish cloning it. All I want is to avoid having to reinstall windows and all my other programs. Will pressing Ignore All in the cloning process cause any problems?

 

Chkdsk doesn't find any bad sectors, for some reason. I'm not sure where Acronis is finding these bad sectors, honestly.

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Welcome to these User Forums.

I would strongly recommend not using Clone for this disk migration from your failing HDD to the new SSD drive.  Clone is more sensitive to disk sector issues than using Backup, though both tools will report such errors.

CHKDSK can only be used for a partition which has a drive letter assigned, i.e. C: but your HDD drive has other partitions where bad sectors can be encountered, partitions that are normally hidden and do not have a drive letter.

Make a full Disk & Partitions backup of your HDD to an external backup drive, then check the log for this backup to ensure that your understand any issues arising from it.  Use the MVP Log File Viewer to access and review the log - link below.

Once you have the full backup, then remove the HDD and replace it with the new SSD, then boot your computer using the Acronis bootable Rescue media (using the same BIOS mode as your Windows OS uses - run the msinfo32 command in Windows to find the BIOS mode), and restore the backup to the SSD in Disk mode.