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Acronis True Image Won't Clone SMART ERROR DISK

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The laptop has a 250 GB hard drive that is failing and seems to have the recovery partition but will not allow f9 to go through it won't up so that I'm only restoring the factory default. Since the drive is defective it will NOT connect to any Windows System that I have without locking up windows explorer so I can't be sure if the hidden drive is there or not. I purchased a new PNY SSD drive which has only 240 GB HOWEVER the instruction say that "automatic" resizes automatically so that isn't the issue. It states that 'failed to read from sector 2176 of hard disk 1 try to repeat the operation. if the error persists, check the disk using check disk utility and create a backup of the disk". I can't attach the errored disk to any other computer so tell me the best way to clone/copy in this scenario. I plan to restore to factory but I don't see how to see any "hidden partition using this software though it has 4 partitions with only 3 named.

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If your original disk has bad/dirty sectors, cloning will always revert to a sector-by-sector process - meaing it needs to backup up the entire drive, including the blank space.  In this case, it would not be possible to clone from a 250GB drive to a 240GB as a sector-by-sector backup would make it too big to fit on the new, smaller disk.

Why can't you attach the disk to any other computers?  If you are unable to attach to any other computers or unable to run a full chkdsk on the existing computer, a backup program is not likely to help you at this point unless you have an existing backup that you can restore from instead.  Once a disk is "too far gone", it may just not be possible to read the data off of it properly and/or move it to another drive.  

Your best option is to try and get chkdsk to work.  If you have a Windows installation disc, you should be able to go to the advanced recovery menu and open a command prompt from it (http://www.howtogeek.com/135005/how-to-use-a-windows-installer-disc-to-back-up-your-files-when-your-computer-wont-boot/).  Then run 

chkdsk /f /r

against the main drive.  If chkdsk can get through its process and clean things up, you might then be able to clone.  Otherwise, and this would be my recommednation if you have another storage location.. would be to take a full disk backup (if the disk isn't in such bad shape that that would fail too), and then restore the backup to the new drive.  Backup/restore is less finicky with dirty/bad sectors than cloning, but it really depends on how bad the drive is already.

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