Imaging Hard Drive problem, Please Help!

[Dephos]

I'm honestly so done right now. My original hard drive is dying because it freezes every hour. So I decided to buy a new Hard Drive so I can image it from my dying Hard Drive and replace it, but it just wont work, saying cluster volume error everytime I try. Then I tried doing ChkDsk /r and /f but it still wont copy... I honestly don't know what to do at this point since I wasted my whole day trying to figure this out and bought a new hard drive for this.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

You've left it too late, the HDD is already too far gone to clone it.
You should have bought a secondary HDD and created/saved a backup image on it from day one, ready for the day when you would need it. I wouldn't dream of not having a full backup image of my system HDD.

You now have only one option, fresh install Windows on that new HDD & start over (reinstall your apps, drivers etc.).

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from Dephos : "Can't copy old hard drive to new one."

I'm honestly so done right now. My original hard drive is dying because it freezes every hour. So I decided to buy a new Hard Drive so I can image it from my dying Hard Drive and replace it, but it just wont work, saying cluster volume error everytime I try. Then I tried doing ChkDsk /r and /f but it still wont copy... I honestly don't know what to do at this point since I wasted my whole day trying to figure this out and bought a new hard drive for this.

Ok, I can help.

I'm writing this post now, give me a sec to edit it in.

well, it's a dying hard drive.

Only thing I can recommend is a kinda last ditch effort, what you can try is putting the HDD in a plastic ziploc, put it in the fridge for a few hours, and then scramble to get your most important data off it.

If you data was actually important to you, you would have it backed up.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Don't start duplicate threads - - even though it may have a different title it is still essentially the same content !

 

[Dephos]

You've left it too late, the HDD is already too far gone to clone it.
You should have bought a secondary HDD and created/saved a backup image on it from day one, ready for the day when you would need it. I wouldn't dream of not having a full backup image of my system HDD.

You now have only one option, fresh install Windows on that new HDD & start over (reinstall your apps, drivers etc.).

I don't really have anything important on my hdd. So I might just start all over, but I have a question, would I have to buy a new windows 10 since the disk I have right now is windows 7 because I upgraded for free?

 

[hydranix]

You've left it too late, the HDD is already too far gone to clone it.
You should have bought a secondary HDD and created/saved a backup image on it from day one, ready for the day when you would need it. I wouldn't dream of not having a full backup image of my system HDD.

You now have only one option, fresh install Windows on that new HDD & start over (reinstall your apps, drivers etc.).

I don't really have anything important on my hdd. So I might just start all over, but I have a question, would I have to buy a new windows 10 since the disk I have right now is windows 7 because I upgraded for free?

Glad my long reply on how to save your data was lost due to you multiposting and a mod deleteing your old thread....

After about an hour of typing, all was lost when I hit submit.

Moral of the story? Should have backed up that post. Like you should have your data...

Don't put your hard drive in the fridge... that's ridiculously useless to do. Condensation will ruin the drive sooner than it's first problem.

Your drive is not totally dead, some of your data can still be recovered, but there's no point if you don't even need it very badly.

As for your final question, which has been answered hundreds of times. You'd have known had you searched first.

Regardless:
Install Windows 10 on your new drive, you don't have to activate it. Skip any serial numbers it asks for, Windows 10 will figure it out for you. I'm serious.

 

[Dephos]

You've left it too late, the HDD is already too far gone to clone it.
You should have bought a secondary HDD and created/saved a backup image on it from day one, ready for the day when you would need it. I wouldn't dream of not having a full backup image of my system HDD.

You now have only one option, fresh install Windows on that new HDD & start over (reinstall your apps, drivers etc.).

I don't really have anything important on my hdd. So I might just start all over, but I have a question, would I have to buy a new windows 10 since the disk I have right now is windows 7 because I upgraded for free?

Glad my long reply on how to save your data was lost due to you multiposting and a mod deleteing your old thread....

After about an hour of typing, all was lost when I hit submit.

Moral of the story? Should have backed up that post. Like you should have your data...

Don't put your hard drive in the fridge... that's ridiculously useless to do. Condensation will ruin the drive sooner than it's first problem.

Your drive is not totally dead, some of your data can still be recovered, but there's no point if you don't even need it very badly.

As for your final question, which has been answered hundreds of times. You'd have known had you searched first.

Regardless:
Install Windows 10 on your new drive, you don't have to activate it. Skip any serial numbers it asks for, Windows 10 will figure it out for you. I'm serious.

Really sorry about that man, thanls for replying though.