Potential New hard disk installation
Hi There - Will here from Australia
Before I start I need to let you know that I dont know much about computers other than the every day kind of stuff. I see all the topics discussed and the terms used and I am just lost. I will explain my situation as best I can.
I have been running windows 10 on my old computer - no real issues there. A friend of mine gifted me with a new (second hand) desktop - minus the hard drive. (see below - I have added my original HDD to this PC) Details as follows:
Windows 10 Home 64-bit;; CPU: AMD FX-6100,Zambezi 32nm Technology;; RAM: 12.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 671MHz (9-9-9-24);; Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. GA-990FXA-UD3;; Graphics: SyncMaster (1280x1024@60Hz),1279MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (CardExpert Technology);;Old hard drive - still running on it now: 465GB Seagate ST3500418AS (SATA), New hard drive installed: 931GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 (SATA).
I installed my old hard drive into my new PC and got it all up and running. I will have to contact Microsoft to re-activate my OS - my original Windows 10 was from the free online upgrade. Anyway - since then I have noticed some weird noises in my HDD and decided to buy a new one. I now have a formatted, completely clean hard drive installed, while still running on my suspect one - both are connected. (the old one has not stopped working yet).
So now I want to create a "copy" of my old disk on the new one so that I can run off the new one and remove the old one. I spoke with a guy at a local PC shop and he told me about Acronis and the free 30 day trial. Downloaded it (True image 2017) and have started to do a backup - "Disk and Partitions" to a custom destination - my second, new hard drive. So far so good. Quite chuffed with myself at this point. I am assuming that this backup or "copy" will include the operating system and the lot.
However - I have some errors coming up - there is a sector read fail (I have since used CHKDSK and it says all is good) as well as a snapshot read fail. With the following codes: "(0x10C45A) CRC error. (0x100155)". I have no idea what this could mean. This is my problem so far.
If I somehow manage to get past that issue, and I have a copy of my old disk on the new one, what is the next step after that? WIll I just be able to change my boot disk in my BIOS or somewhere and it will all be running ok off the new HDD or are there additiional steps to be taken?
Apologies for being a bit long winded but I thought I had better explain things properly. I hope you guys can help or at least give me some advice. If it all gets too hard, I will probably just go to my local PC shop.
Cheers - Will from OZ


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Thanks Steve - That is a great answer to my question - all in nice logical steps as you said. much appreciated.
One last thing - before I go to bed (it is 11PM here in Oz...)
I mentioned in the original post that some errors came up while my first backup attempt was trying to happen. Any advice on that? Hopefully I can get that bit sorted in the morning and then carry on with the 7 steps to hard drive salvation that you posted in your reply.
Regards
Will
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Will, if you are seeing sector errors then these could occur in any part of the old disk drive and the impact of such errors will depend on whether they will prevent a successful full backup from being created?
Run a further CHKDSK against the Seagate drive, but use also the /R switch, i.e. CHKDSK C: /R which will take a longer time to run but will check for bad sectors and attempt to reassign any found.
Note: When doing the full disk & partitions backup of the Seagate drive, do not choose 'Entire PC' as this will include your second Toshiba drive. Personally, I would disconnect the Toshiba drive to avoid any confusion.
If you do get any errors during the backup of the Seagate drive, you can try ignoring these and let the backup continue then try the further steps, including restoring the backup to the Toshiba drive. You will only discover the extend of any issues caused by bad sectors after you try booting into Windows from the new drive, and even then there may be no obvious problem.
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