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Will cloning clone uncorrectable sector counts?

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I am replacing an internal storage drive (WD Black 2 TB) with an identical new drive.

The drive I'm replacing is quite old and has critical data (that is backed up redundantly).

CrystalDiskInfo reports this old drive as having 200/current and 200/worst under Uncorrectable Sector Counts.

Will cloning this drive pass on those issues to the new drive? I think not, but just wanted to be sure.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

dg

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If your old drive has bad sectors then it really depends on if any data is stored in those sectors as cloning will have issues if so.

I would recommend making a full Disks & Partitions backup image of the drive before attempting any clone operation.  Backup will tell you if any bad / problem sectors are encountered and allow you to decide on whether to ignore such errors or not.  You could recover the backup to your new drive instead of using cloning.

Hopefully, bad sectors have already been reallocated and the data moved.