Harddrive problems and boot issue

[Len Hobbel]

OKay SMaRT says I have a HD beginning to fail and I know it has issues according to a widget in the reallocated sector count error least it shows it in the red..is this reliable using crystaldiskinfo 6.2.1?
HOWEVER
I have a SSD with my windows on it for booting the system
I also copied it to a HD just in-case it failed
When I unplugged the bad HD to boot it without it it would not boot Said missing boot
This is the SAME HD I copied windows to as a back up.
I think I did something VERY wrong because the SPINNER BOOTS now. But the SSD use to boot it because at one time click and on so I know the SSD at one time was booting the system
So I can not assume the spinner is booting and it is still very fast boot up which is confusing.
So before I go all out and redo windows ONLY to the SSD again
IS there a way to confirm it is the spinner booting as I think it is now?
I think i will just redo my windows on the SSD to cure any wrong installed issues that I learned about long after I installed it...liek those SPECIAL BIOS settings to make it even faster lol

I am a horrible at trying to explain stuff and this very will could be confusing, sorry
Thanks in advance

LEN

 

[junkeymonkey]

thing is if the drive has a bad sector and it try's to move it you don't know if any data that was in that bad sector was damaged or corrupted or lost .. so you may have cloned bad data

when you reinstall windows only have one hard drive hooked up and that's the one you load windows on

the missing boot thing maybe it was tucked away on the disk and did not allow to be copyed and moved ?? Microsoft got there tricks

 

[Tcinator]

windows installer is stupid. if you had both drives, the ssd and hd in the system at install, windows will put some necessary setup info into the HDD if your installing onto another disk. you are not booting off the HDD as you think you are, the ssd install merely relies on the HDD to boot. remove the HDD, slap in a windows install cd, when you get to the install page, select repair my computer and select startup repair, it should rebuild the boot files to the ssd and you should be good to go. (hopefully)