Cloning hard disk using Acronis

Urbiston

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My hard disk was partially damaged and everytime I turned my computer on, the SMART tool said that
the hard disk was almost at the brink of failure, but let me boot anyways.
I have Windows 7.
I used the Acronis true image to clone my SATA Hitachi hard disk of 1 TB to another Western Digital SATA hard disk of the same size.
It has been cloning now for almost a week and when Acronis inquired me about damaged sectors a few days ago, I told it to disregard them.
The ongoing process keeps on updating messages every few hours changing from several hours to several minutes and back to hours. Now it seems that the time lapses keep on shortening.
Should I stop it or let it finish even if the process has taken more than a week?.
Forgot to mention that I run the Checkdisk windows tool before starting to clone.
Thank you very much.

 
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I admire your optimism.
A clone should take a couple of hours at most.

It is time to stop the process and try to recover what you can.
See if windows easy transfer can work to export all your files and settings to an different drive.

I think you will need to reinstall windows on a working drive.
I think this would be an opportune time to change to a ssd.

Once that is done, windows easy transfer can import all or part of your files and settings.
Your apps will need to be reinstalled. The transfer process will give you a report inventorying them.

clutchc

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To be honest, I would doubt the quality of the disk image after all this time. You may have waited to long before making a disk image. I would try to save as many personal files as possible manually, and then go for a clean install of Win7 on the new drive. Btw, have you tried Windows Backup? It does a disk image too.
 
I admire your optimism.
A clone should take a couple of hours at most.

It is time to stop the process and try to recover what you can.
See if windows easy transfer can work to export all your files and settings to an different drive.

I think you will need to reinstall windows on a working drive.
I think this would be an opportune time to change to a ssd.

Once that is done, windows easy transfer can import all or part of your files and settings.
Your apps will need to be reinstalled. The transfer process will give you a report inventorying them.
 
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