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Replacing 1TB HDD having Partition Errors with 960GB SSD in Laptop

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I found out I had partition errors on OS partition of 1TB HDD when I tried to use 2021 ATI WinPE bootable media to do a clone of removed HDD disk with automatic partition resizing after first installing 960GB SSD in laptop as suggested in other posts.  Didn’t work. Partition errors found. Tried a number of things over several hours on two days using only ATI software.

What worked finally:

Starting with 1TB HDD back in laptop.

Used Partition Manager Pro to clone 1TB internal HDD to 1TB external USB expansion drive. PMP never popped up a message about partition errors.

Reinstalled SSD in laptop.

Used ATI Linux bootable media (WINPE bootable media errored out and said to use Linux version) to clone the clone on 1TB external USB expansion drive to the 960GB SSD drive in the laptop.

Disconnected external drive per onscreen directions at completion of cloning operation.

Exited ATI program.

System booted from SSD perfectly without needing any other tweaks.

 

Both cloning processes took quite a while as USB on laptop is 2.0 but it all worked in the end.

 

Don’t know what would have happed if I had used ATI Linux bootable media for initial attempt to clone from 1TB HDD drive to 960GB SSD. However, using ATI Linux bootable media, I did try cloning from original HDD drive with partition errors connected to system with USB to SATA Drive Adapter and a 1TB external USB expansion drive on another USB port but the 1TB HDD wasn’t even recognized so I couldn’t find out if partition errors message would occur again.  NOT interested in resetting SSD to blank drive to try this. I will leave this for someone else to try and make a reply to let readers know if it worked or not.

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Bob, thanks for sharing your experience here.

I recently dealt with a failing 2.5" SATA HDD with lots of errors.

I used my ATI 2020 WinPE rescue media to make a full Disk backup image of the source drive using the option to use sector by sector mode and ignore bad sector messages.  The backup took a very long time!  The SATA HDD backup ran overnight for more than 12 hours!

Once I had made the backup image, I then recovered the backup image to a spare 1TB HDD (3.5" in a dock) then attempted to repair this by running CHKDSK /R to recover as much / many of the sectors as possible.  This again was a long running action!

The next step was to make a new 'normal' backup of the spare HDD to my normal backup drive then recover this to a new 2.5" SATA SSD installed in the laptop using the WinPE rescue media which then recovered fine and allowed the laptop to boot and further recovery to be done from within Windows.

Ideally, having regular backups before such disk problems arise is far simpler and easier, but the above was a friend's laptop with no backups, so the choice was limited!
I always install a free backup program before returning such PC's after repairs!