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Errors while trying to clone a disk

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I'm using Acronis True Image version 2010.

When trying to clone a disk, I got a message telling me that they were errors in the disk. I ran CHKDSK /f, which corrected a series of errors, but I still cannot clone my disk (errors).

What should I do ? I really wish to be able to clone this disk because it contains a lot of programmes, which means it will take a very long time if I have to install Windows on a totally new disk and reinstall each programme...

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Run chkdsk with both options. Also, obtain a drive testing utility from the drive manufacturer and run that will most complete testing possible. Drive manufacturer's own utilities often catch errors that chkdsk doesn't.

Once the drive is good, don't Clone. Make a full disk Backup, including the Validation option.

As tuttle indicated, chkdsk /f is not enough to alleviate backup/clone issues. You need to run chkdsk X: /R where X: is each partition to verify. The /R parameter includes the /F option and check for bad sectors.

Thank you to both of you (Pat L and tuttle).

Here is what I did to finally save me out:

1. chkdsk /R is actually implied when invoking chkdsk from the Windows GUI and selecting the option "scan and attempt recovery of bad sectors", which is what I did. However, I redid it from the DOS interface to make sure its would work. Once again, it took almost ad day... Severe al errors were corrected, but it did not help (Acronis could not clone...)

2. I then used XXclone which works differently. This program copies the MBR and other things necessary to make the target disk bootable, and then copy one by one all other files using what seems to be an enhanced version of xcopy. This allows the copy to proceed even if they are errors in some files (these files are not copied). The downside was that it took again a lot of time (26 h for a 220 GiB). But the result was great: the target disk worked perfectly and, fortunately, all files that had errors (and were not copied) were data files, not Windows files...

This was a long process but it worked. Any other suggestion ?

Paul,

A few weeks ago I had an issue with a backup that couldn't go through on some laptop. I ran chkdsk /R, I ran the disk diagnostics and repair tools from the manufacturer, and it did repair some errors (plenty of bad sectors), but I could not complete the backup.

Then I ran a file backup. The benefit of that backup is that when it stalls, it tells you which file is problematic. I then deleted each problematic file, rerun the file backup and repeated... After the file backup completed successfully, I ran the disk and partition backup and everything worked out well.
That way, I was able to restore the system to a new disk.