clonezilla errors during backup. Next step?

[Daniel]

I tried to run a simple maintenance back-up on a Windows drive and received the following error:

read CRC error, please check your image file. 
read CRC size (0), 
read CRC error: Illegal seek, please check your image file.
Partclone fail, please check /var/log/partclone.log 
This partition in the image is broken: sda1
Press "Enter" to continue......
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Broken partition images were found, or some of them are not checkable in this image: 2013-02-14-11Cicero
Press "Enter" to continue......
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This is the contents of the log file:

Partclone v0.2.49 http://partclone.org
Starting to check image (-)
Calculating bitmap... Please wait... done!
File system:  NTFS
Device size:   62.9 GB
Space in use:  40.5 GB
Free Space:    22.4 GB
Block size:   4096 Byte
Used block :  9891634
read CRC error, please check your image file. 
read CRC size (0), Success. 
read CRC error: Illegal seek, please check your image file.

I mounted the drive in GParted and did not find any errors.  Preparing for the backup, I opted to interactively check the partition before the actual back-up.  The above error appears when checking the image after back-up phase is complete.  I have attempted to back-up to 3 different destinations: two different drives on the same system or an external USB drive.

I have no clue what to do next.  Some help would be greatly appreciated.

[Daniel]

Correction:
The error occurs during the backup phase.  It never completes a backup.

[Fuchs]

In your case make at first
a backup of your important data,
then a windows 7 defragmentation:
Start
defrag  # in the commandline
etc.

Use clonezilla now.

[Daniel]

I do not have Windows 7, only XP.  I defragmented the drive using that and am still receiving the same error if I use Clonezilla

[Fuchs]

It's a hardware problem. Your HDD is very old I think (64 GB).
- HDD temperature check manually (should be about 45 grd)  or
- HDD temperature check with program SIW /Sensors/HDD/Temperatures
('Software Information for Windows' Gabriel Topala)
- HDD check with the manufacturer software (sectors) or with free software
(after about 8 years I had to change the HDD)

- check the connectors of all connections, USB too.
- use the RAM memory of about 1 GB
- make a memory check with clonezila
- You can make a md5sum test for your clonezila software yet.
Good luck !