Creating a Partition Backup into an Image

manu1991

manu1991

Barely Alive
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OK so here's the thing. I have a 1TB Seagate HDD which is failing, (a lot of bad sectors), I am going to get it RMAed in a few days.

I was hoping to create an entire image of my C:\ drive which i can then replicate on the new drive so that I don't have to go through the hassle of installing and setting up everything again.

The first software i tried was called Eassos Partition Guru. While creating the image, it showed 2 read errors and I clicked on ignore and it continued the process and created the image. However seeing as there were errors and the software itself didn't seem very trustable, I'd thought that I'd create an another backup.

So I tried the create a system image option inside Windows 8 and it failed after 5 minutes. Then I tried CloneZilla and it failed as well.

Does anyone have any suggestions/alternatives? Some software than can probably ignore the bad sectors and make a backup of the good ones?
 
I've used Easeus Partition Manager with no issue.
I am thinking that your source HDD is really that faulty that cannot be backed up.
suggest that you back up everything until you can.
 
You can use Paragon Backup & Recovery free to image. I have successfully imaged and restored my hard disk with it.

Free Backup Software: Paragon Backup & Recovery Free Edition - Overview

Macrium Reflect free is also good.

Macrium Reflect FREE Edition - Information and download

More imaging software, and detailed review here :

Best Free Drive Imaging Program

However, since you have a drive with bad sectors, I won't recommend imaging to you. It's because, when you image the hard disk, the bad sectors too will be imaged. I have heard this from a friend, who got corrupted new hard disk because of this. So, it will be better if you can backup the data manually.
 
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