I recently cloned a 300gb sata drive containing Windows 8.1 onto a Western Digital 2TB disk using the default settings (disk-to-disk).
The 2TB drive at first booted into Windows 8.1 using 100% drive (I assume this means that it has bad sectors).
After a second boot the drive stopped working and was unable to boot into Windows 8. I ran the CHKDSK application afterwards and it was unable to complete, with multiple errors.
The drive was functioning before the clone, and I have tried using the WD tools provided online.
I've inserted the hard drive into another computer and tried to check for further errors, and has shown that one of its two partitions is unreadable whereas EASUS shows that there are no partitions.
The computer immediately showed on its SMART test that the drive was corrupted and should be backed up immediately.
Is it possible that these are soft bad sectors caused by the cloning? If so, what other tools are there to help me solve this urgent issue?
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"Is it possible that these are soft bad sectors caused by the cloning?" -> Clonezilla program does not have the ability to corrupt the hardware, unless the hard drive itself is nearly broken. If you are sure it's hardware issue, please find the hard drive vendor to ask for help.
Steven.
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I recently cloned a 300gb sata drive containing Windows 8.1 onto a Western Digital 2TB disk using the default settings (disk-to-disk).
The 2TB drive at first booted into Windows 8.1 using 100% drive (I assume this means that it has bad sectors).
After a second boot the drive stopped working and was unable to boot into Windows 8. I ran the CHKDSK application afterwards and it was unable to complete, with multiple errors.
The drive was functioning before the clone, and I have tried using the WD tools provided online.
I've inserted the hard drive into another computer and tried to check for further errors, and has shown that one of its two partitions is unreadable whereas EASUS shows that there are no partitions.
The computer immediately showed on its SMART test that the drive was corrupted and should be backed up immediately.
Is it possible that these are soft bad sectors caused by the cloning? If so, what other tools are there to help me solve this urgent issue?
"Is it possible that these are soft bad sectors caused by the cloning?" -> Clonezilla program does not have the ability to corrupt the hardware, unless the hard drive itself is nearly broken. If you are sure it's hardware issue, please find the hard drive vendor to ask for help.
Steven.