[SOLVED] Windows 8.1 sata to ssd cloning problem

[DolWerdd]

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 what I should try next?
Pc is an HP Pavilion 2388ea

 

[Fix_that_Glitch]

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[Fix_that_Glitch]

Run this in admin command prompt.

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=c: /On=c: /Maxsize=10%

Change C: for the correct drive if necessary.

 

[DolWerdd]

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 failing its short DST test, however it has no problems with booting and running windows. I get the occasional blue screen with a critical_structure_corruption but I have never been able to track down the cause.

I have also run a chkdsk /v from an admin cmd and it failed about 40% into the tests.

 

[DolWerdd]

Run this in admin command prompt.

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=c: /On=c: /Maxsize=10%

Change C: for the correct drive if necessary.

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 hence my late reply. I have also tried again while disabling Norton 360 anti virus but with the same result.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Check health of your drive. Use HDtune health.

 

[DolWerdd]

Check health of your drive. Use HDtune health.

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

 

[DolWerdd]

Check health of your drive. Use HDtune health.

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

 

[USAFRet]

If the drive is failing, even a little bit, forget the cloning action.
Even with the advanced tools that can ignore bad sectors and keep going....you're only getting part of the data.
Making a "clone" mostly useless.

And if this is not the OS just, don't clone at all. Just copy/paste from old to new.

 

[DolWerdd]

If the drive is failing, even a little bit, forget the cloning action.
Even with the advanced tools that can ignore bad sectors and keep going....you're only getting part of the data.
Making a "clone" mostly useless.

And if this is not the OS just, don't clone at all. Just copy/paste from old to new.

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 drive.
The sata disk is a Seagate ST2000, is it worth trying to fix it with Seatools?

 

[SkyNetRising]

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 drive.
The sata disk is a Seagate ST2000, is it worth trying to fix it with Seatools?

Download windows 8.1 iso from Microsoft and create USB installation media.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

Disconnect HDD, connect SSD only.
Install windows.
Connect HDD.
Copy user data from HDD to SSD.
Discard HDD.

 

[DolWerdd]

If the drive is failing, even a little bit, forget the cloning action.
Even with the advanced tools that can ignore bad sectors and keep going....you're only getting part of the data.
Making a "clone" mostly useless.

And if this is not the OS just, don't clone at all. Just copy/paste from old to new.

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...