Recent content by DolWerdd

Annoying really, until recently I was a SAN storage architect (20 years) for enterprise EMC storage arrays but rarely came into contact with individual HDDs. If you want a design to connect AIX, HP-UX, Linux or Windows servers to a storage array via FC or iSCSI then I am your man...

Unfortunately this is the c: (os) drive so I need to make the new ssd drive bootable into win 8.1 to be able to copy files to it, I will also then need to reinstall all the programs. I have the original recovery dvds (for win 8, I upgraded to 8.1) and my data is backed up to an external usb...

Image failed, error 1117, I/O error HD Tune shows that the disk has 1768 unstable sectors

Ok, thanks, I will try that next. I am currently attempting to image the disk to a usb drive which will take some time.

Hi I have run the command as above (it is the c: drive) and the program now gets past the vss section, creates the partition and then errors 3% into the copy with an error 9 and claiming an i/o error. The test that I was running at the time of your reply was a chkdsk /r which took 12 hours...

Thanks, I shall try this when my pc finishes running some tests. Currently the 1.8tb sata os partition that fails to clone has about 1tb of free space so will that cause a problem with the vss size? Since posting the original question I have run the hp bios disk diagnostics and the disk is...

I am trying to clone a 2tb Seagate sata drive to a 2 tb Samsung ssd drive using Macrium Reflect and am getting an error message (error reading MFT code = 2) when it tries to clone the main c drive. Chkdsk / r is recommended and I have tried this but to no apparent effect, any suggestions as to...