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cloning a hard drive question

  • 16-02-2021 10:07PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 518 ✭✭✭


    hi... I have cloned a hard drive before using Macrium Reflect. What I am hoping to do now is a little different. I am having difficulty rebooting a pc with a hard drive which is giving problems. CHKDSk doesnt work, it says there are unrepairable clusters on the drive. I have plugged it in to a hard drive reader and run a scan on it using another pc. I ran a scan-and-repair on the hard drive and it said it had repaired the errors, but it still does not boot up. I was able to get into the F12 menu but there was no option to rearrange the boot sequence in order for me to boot to a USB Windows 10 flash. (because it was in legacy mode which I changed, now it doesn't boot) It is a DELL pc.

    I have a new unused SSD HD. If I copied the files from the old HD onto my PC, could I write them to the SSD HD from my PC using Macrium Reflect?

    thanks


Comments

  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Garbage in, garbage out.

    Install a fresh on the new drive then mount the drive and pull usable user data.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ED E wrote: »
    Garbage in, garbage out.

    Install a fresh on the new drive then mount the drive and pull usable user data.

    thanks for the info, do you mean a fresh install of Windows on the new drive, then copy over the user data plus device drivers?


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Id probably fetch the drivers fresh from the manufacturer, but yeah.


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