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Hello everyone.

I have an older hard drive that is starting to give me some issues. I had some bad sectors on the drive and was able to have Windows repair them and my hard drive was working fine again. I decided it would be best to upgrade to a new hard drive and this is where I'm running into problems. I've tried using Acronis True Image to clone my drive and it will not work properly due to bad sectors on the disk. I've also tried using EaseUS Todo Backup with their sector by sector hard drive clone and it gives me a defragment message. I defragged my hard old hard drive and ran chkdisk and had windows repair and hard drive errors. After this I tried performing the sector by sector hard drive clone once again with no luck. I receive the same defragment error.

Any suggestions from anyone of another software program that might help me get the job done or anything else I can try? I was hoping to just clone this drive to my new hard drive instead of having to perform a new install.

Thanks for any suggestions or comments.
 
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When you used Acronis, did it quit completely? Or, did it tell you that it had a problem with a Bad Sector and ask for what to do?

I cloned an old HDD with many Bad Sectors a while back, using an Acronis version. Every time it stopped on a Bad Sector error I just chose the option to continue working anyway. What that means, I expect, is the the properly-written Sector on the new HDD had corrupt data written to it, but I was willing to accept that so I could get the rest of the old unit cloned. Eventually I got tired of responding to all the error messages and chose a different option - one that said it should ignore all such errors and just keep going until the job was finished. It did that. The resulting new copy on the new HDD has...
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When you used Acronis, did it quit completely? Or, did it tell you that it had a problem with a Bad Sector and ask for what to do?

I cloned an old HDD with many Bad Sectors a while back, using an Acronis version. Every time it stopped on a Bad Sector error I just chose the option to continue working anyway. What that means, I expect, is the the properly-written Sector on the new HDD had corrupt data written to it, but I was willing to accept that so I could get the rest of the old unit cloned. Eventually I got tired of responding to all the error messages and chose a different option - one that said it should ignore all such errors and just keep going until the job was finished. It did that. The resulting new copy on the new HDD has worked perfectly since then. I guess I was lucky. Either I have not yet tried to use a file with corrupt data in a Sector, OR all the "Bad Sectors" on the old HDD actually were NOT used in any real files.

Anyway, look for such an option when Acronis or another cloner reports a Bad Sector and asks for what to do.
 
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