Bear with me, as I have a couple Q's that can be a bit complex. Easy part: I have a laptop WD drive that is starting to show signs of failure (Smart parameters warning, on some SMART versions, the 'Current Sector Pending Count' shows a red circle with a bar across it. The number of sectors affected seem to climb abit with each boot - think 99 was the last number.) And I've found at least one, and by other methods more, sectors with data that I get a 'can't read that' error. I ran checkdisk with error correction, and it seems to have finished and done its work, but still, when I made a partition backup using Acronis Home 11, I got 2 error messages saying it couldn't read some data - I told it to 'try again' and it didn't give me any more error codes.)
Now the tougher part: 1. How can I be sure that I'm not simply copying badsectors or data from an old drive onto a new drive that I plan to put in that machine as a replacement, once I either clone a copy or make an image and restore it using Acronis 11?
Some weeks ago I tried 'clone disk', using first, a drive of the same size, and then, a drive larger (orig is 320 gb, larger was 500 gb) using an acronis 2011 boot disk and my laptop, setup the way acronis advises for cloning. But it gave me error messages saying it couldn't complete the clone process.
I made a new *partition* backup today using Acronis, just as a safety backup. It gave me one 'read' errors - perhaps 2, in the process but I said 'retry' and it didn't complain further. I am able to mount those images as virtual drives in Vista, and can access data. But as I said, that's a
'failsafe' backup in case things get worse.
2.. I'm in the midst of trying to make a full disk image of my hard drive (the one failing) in the laptop. Should I have made it bootable or not - Acronis' instructions seem unclear to me.(Recording now - I chose not to make it bootable - and I'm copying the image onto a 3,5" external disk.) If it succeeds in making a whole-disk image, I could theoretically restore that to another laptop hardrive - and I'd use one of the same capacity, for simplicity's sake.
3. If I am able to do that, does the image *have* to be restored to a new drive using the laptop and the Acronis Boot Disk (i.e. Recovery) that i made for the laptop, which is running Acronis home 2011, or, using a desktop machine running Win7 and acronis 2015, could I restore that image using Acronis on that machine onto the new HD, then pug the new 320 gb laptop drive into the laptop,and have it work? Or, do I definitely need to do it from the laptop itself usng the 2011 version?
4 if that fails to work on the laptop, could I take the old laptop (failing) hardrive, and the new clean laptop hard drive, and clone the old one to the new one, having plugged both those drives into my Win7 desktop machine via usb enclosures? So far, there seems to be something about either using the laptop to clone or restore image, and/or using the 2011 on that machine that makes this process fail.
Sorry to be so circuitous and long-winded, but I wanted to include as much info as I could. I am a low-to-moderately informed in terms of tech knowledge. Thanks in advance.
Now the tougher part: 1. How can I be sure that I'm not simply copying badsectors or data from an old drive onto a new drive that I plan to put in that machine as a replacement, once I either clone a copy or make an image and restore it using Acronis 11?
Some weeks ago I tried 'clone disk', using first, a drive of the same size, and then, a drive larger (orig is 320 gb, larger was 500 gb) using an acronis 2011 boot disk and my laptop, setup the way acronis advises for cloning. But it gave me error messages saying it couldn't complete the clone process.
I made a new *partition* backup today using Acronis, just as a safety backup. It gave me one 'read' errors - perhaps 2, in the process but I said 'retry' and it didn't complain further. I am able to mount those images as virtual drives in Vista, and can access data. But as I said, that's a
'failsafe' backup in case things get worse.
2.. I'm in the midst of trying to make a full disk image of my hard drive (the one failing) in the laptop. Should I have made it bootable or not - Acronis' instructions seem unclear to me.(Recording now - I chose not to make it bootable - and I'm copying the image onto a 3,5" external disk.) If it succeeds in making a whole-disk image, I could theoretically restore that to another laptop hardrive - and I'd use one of the same capacity, for simplicity's sake.
3. If I am able to do that, does the image *have* to be restored to a new drive using the laptop and the Acronis Boot Disk (i.e. Recovery) that i made for the laptop, which is running Acronis home 2011, or, using a desktop machine running Win7 and acronis 2015, could I restore that image using Acronis on that machine onto the new HD, then pug the new 320 gb laptop drive into the laptop,and have it work? Or, do I definitely need to do it from the laptop itself usng the 2011 version?
4 if that fails to work on the laptop, could I take the old laptop (failing) hardrive, and the new clean laptop hard drive, and clone the old one to the new one, having plugged both those drives into my Win7 desktop machine via usb enclosures? So far, there seems to be something about either using the laptop to clone or restore image, and/or using the 2011 on that machine that makes this process fail.
Sorry to be so circuitous and long-winded, but I wanted to include as much info as I could. I am a low-to-moderately informed in terms of tech knowledge. Thanks in advance.
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