Copying data from one drive to another won't cause the data to be copied in a way that will inflict damage on the destination. This is because if your hard drive won’t boot, you can’t clone it.Īs long as all of the data is still readable, then problematic sectors don't carry over to other drives because the very nature of problematic sectors is that they are specific to the hardware itself. Unless you have a clone ready-made and available for immediate use, you’ll probably be restoring an image to get back to normal. Disk images can also be stored on optical media and flash drives. Unlike cloned drives, a single hard drive can store several disk images on it. You can't restore a hard drive by placing the disk image files on it it needs to be opened and installed on the drive with an imaging program. However, the disk image needs to be applied to the hard drive to work. A disk image is a storage file that contains all the data stored on the source hard drive and the necessary information to boot to the operating system. A cloned drive can be used to replace its source drive in a computer in the event that something bad happens to the original drive.ĭisk imaging is the process of making an archival or backup copy of the entire contents of a hard drive. If you boot to the cloned drive, its data will be identical to the source drive at the time it was created. This second copy of the hard drive is fully operational and can be swapped with the computer's existing hard drive. A cloning program enables you to make a one-to-one copy of one of your computer's hard drives on another hard drive. If it was me, I would image the disk, and then restore that to the new one but either method should work.ĭisk cloning is the process of copying the entire contents of one hard drive to another including all the information that enables you to boot to the operating system from the drive. If memory serves right, I imaged and restored. I use a separate system disk, and I already replaced the old mechanical disk devoted to it with an SSD. What is the best method to ensure existing problems do not port over to the new disk ? Clone, or image then restore ? It may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk. There is 1 weak sector found on the disk surface. The drive found 2 bad sectors during its self test. The contents of these sectors were moved to the spare area.
There are 3 bad sectors on the disk surface. The program Hard Disk Sentinel says this about the existing disk : I am about to retire my old mechanical disk devoted to data, and replace it with a brand new one.
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