How to clone a damaged laptop hard drive?

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How to clone a damaged laptop hard drive?
There is a laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate (licensed). Everything works great. We decided to replace the hard drive with an SSD. No data is copied by Acronis. Acronis either does not see the chipset drivers (and the hard drive), or gives an error copying the partition. Apparently, there is a section of bad sectors there, which does not affect the operation of the laptop in any way ... but it does not allow cloning the partition either.
I want to move Windows, not reinstall. You need a program that can ignore bad areas and clone disks correctly. Or a program that can copy all folders with all NT permissions. Or another way to transfer the installed Windows /
Not that I would be banned from Google, I just don't have time to experiment, I need a proven solution, ideally a boot disk.

Answer 1

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
take home (trial 30 days), put on the current Windows and transfer. Doesn't crash on broken sectors

Answer 2

Pull the HDD out of the laptop.
Connect to the computer on which the HDD and SSD will be
cloned. Try to start cloning.
If it doesn't work, first run a full disk check (of course you have a backup of valuable data)
Well, or boot to a laptop from a bootable USB flash drive.
Another option is to make an image https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/down...
then upload it back https://forum.sysinternals.com/vhd2disk_topic27311.html
But here you will have to work with your hands - the disk make it active, and restore the download. Well, all operations are only with vhd, because the second utility does not understand vhdx.
It is also a very working and trouble-free option - control panel - archiving and restoring.
And then loading the laptop from a bootable USB flash drive and restoring the system from the archive.

Answer 3

Faced a similar situation. The software that came with the SSD for cloning, I don’t remember what it was - it crashed with an error.
I tried everything I googled, again, I don’t remember the whole list. For the sake of curiosity, I did not dwell on the very first softin that worked, I tested everything I found. In my case, I still needed to resize the partition, not just copy it. As a result, I wrote down in my notebook only what I did:
Macrium Reflect
MiniTool Partition Wizard
Clonezilla
Yes, that's it. The disk was serviceable, although some softins flew out as if they ran into bads. What it was - did not understand. It is possible that your situation is similar. But just in case, a disclaimer: if the data is critical, stop experimenting, take it to specialists. If there are bads or a scratch, self-recovery attempts can seriously aggravate the problem. On the PC-3000, special algorithms are used to bypass problem areas, and ordinary copiers will stupidly crawl their heads over a scratch, tearing it apart even further.

Answer 4

PARAGON Migrate OS https://www.paragon-software.com/home/migrate-os-t...

Answer 5

no time for experiments, you need a proven solution

If there is no time, then instead of time you risk losing data, which is sometimes much more valuable than time. The "tested solution" is tested on a different hardware configuration, with different disk defects, so experimentation may still be necessary. In general, don't give up on the idea of ​​trying out different ways.

Need a program that knows how to ignore bad sections

Cloners known to me (Acronis TI, Paragon HDM, Norton Ghost, etc.) either have the "Ignore errors" option turned off, or ignore them by default, stupidly copying sectors as they are.

replace hard drive with ssd

This procedure is not exactly cloning, it is called "os migration". Many advanced cloners (for example, from Paragon and AOMEI) can do the migration automatically.

Answer 6

And if you try to make a backup with built-in backup, and then deploy it on a new disk? IMHO it should work.

Answer 7

If you just "would like to", then run CHKDISK, if there are simply errors in the file system, they will fix them. But it can also "cut down" the disk and it will stop being read at all.

Answer 8

The condition is this: if with a creak, but the system is still working.
1. Download the live CD (Admin PE theme, everything is there)
2. Run from it, open the console, write chkdsk C: /f /r # (Select the broken section, in the example it is C :)
3. Wait a very long time
4. Then Acronis Disk Director clones the entire Disk if the Partition Table is MBR.
4.1 If GPT and UEFI- Copy Volumes in turn
4.2 You need to assign a letter to the volume with the name ESP (for example D)
4.3 Open the console and write bcdboot C:\Windows /s D: /f UEFI (C:\Windows is an example, you need select the volume with the already copied system on the new disk)
5. After everything is done, we cut down the computer, turn off the old disk.