• Can't clone HDD to SSD due to "Bad Sector in source drive"
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As the title says, I've tried cloning my HDD to my new SSD. The SSD is a Samsung 850 Evo, the HDD is a crappy Samsung 5400 HDD. Using Samsung Migration Software, the HDD gets to 76% copied before the program cancels the cloning process due to the HDD having bad sectors. According to my searches, bad sectors are signs of a failing drive, and no matter what I do with CheckDisk, the error still occurs. Is there anything I can do to fix the bad sectors to clone the data, or do I use a different cloning program entirely? I need help ASAP as I return to college in a few days and I'd rather not risk my drive failing when I'm doing school work. EDIT: I'm running SeaTools to see if it can fix the issue, otherwise my only other option is to backup as much data as I can and format the drive.
You can't fix bad sectors, it's a physical fault. You could try easeus partition master and see if that works. Is the HDD larger than the SSD? If so you would need to shrink the partition down first then do a sector by sector clone. If not, just skip to the sector by sector clone. After you do that and boot into the SSD, run CMD and do a chkdsk /f That should get you out of trouble.
How do I use it to do a sector-by-sector clone? I can't seem to find the option to do so.
Shit, forgot about that. It does it automatically if it thinks it's needed.
When I tell Easeus Partition Master to apply the cloning, the computer restarts into the cloning process but immediately errors out due to the same issue I've been having. I'm still trying to back up the Recovery Image onto an external drive, but because technology loves me lately the drive became unreadable, so I'm looking for another external drive with enough space for a backup, after which I'll format the faulty hard drive.
Mods can close this thread, I've figured out a solution. If anyone else has this issue (I doubt it), here's what I did: -Needed to clone installed HDD to a new SSD, which no program could do due to the HDD having bad sectors that couldn't be repaired without risking an entire computer wipe. For some reason, even programs who did a sector-by-sector clone wouldn't work properly. -I tried to up my data onto an external drive didn't work using the Windows 8.1 System Image recovery, so I'm using EaseUS Backup ToDo (free version), which successfully is doing a sector-by-sector system image backup. -Whenever the backup is finished, I'm going to use SeaTools by Seagate to fix the bad sectors, since it's the company that made my HDD. If it does not fix the issue, I'll format the HDD and scan for bad sectors. -From there, I'll restore my data, then finally clone my information to the SSD. Even though I haven't done it yet, the only issue I had was not being to backup my data once I found out I couldn't clone the HDD due to the bad sectors, so everything else should work perfectly fine.
[QUOTE=huntingrifle;48535239]Mods can close this thread, I've figured out a solution. If anyone else has this issue (I doubt it), here's what I did: -Needed to clone installed HDD to a new SSD, which no program could do due to the HDD having bad sectors that couldn't be repaired without risking an entire computer wipe. For some reason, even programs who did a sector-by-sector clone wouldn't work properly. -I tried to up my data onto an external drive didn't work using the Windows 8.1 System Image recovery, so I'm using EaseUS Backup ToDo (free version), which successfully is doing a sector-by-sector system image backup. -Whenever the backup is finished, I'm going to use SeaTools by Seagate to fix the bad sectors, since it's the company that made my HDD. If it does not fix the issue, I'll format the HDD and scan for bad sectors. -From there, I'll restore my data, then finally clone my information to the SSD. Even though I haven't done it yet, the only issue I had was not being to backup my data once I found out I couldn't clone the HDD due to the bad sectors, so everything else should work perfectly fine.[/QUOTE] Bad sectors cannot be fixed. The drive firmware will automatically relocate bad sectors if it can. If you are getting problems like this, its beyond "fixing". Chances are, it will only get worse. Scrap the drive as soon as you have all the data off it.
Exactly what I plan on doing, even if it was salvageable if converted to an external drive, it has awful read/write speeds for a 5400 rpm drive.
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