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HDD dying - problems cloning
Hi all,
A few days ago I experienced some power failure and now my HDD (WD Caviar Black 640 Gb 64mb 7200 SATA 2) is dying.
Crystal Disk Info shows a warning: Current Pending Sector Count with RAW value 1
Everything works fine except when I start Opera. The more tabs I open and the more cache it creates, the more errors show up in Event Viewer. I'll post the error later since I forgot to take a look now and I am trying to clone the disk again.
I am using Paragon Disk Manager and it seams to be having problems cloning the disk. I tried to clone it using a USB rack and it failed. I tried to clone it via SATA, using Clone Disk option, no luck. I also tried to clone it using Migrate OS function. Everytime it clones all other partitions except C:\.
Now I am trying to clone it using RAW Disk option. Since this is low level cloning I hope it works. (just failed)
Anyway, here are my questions:
1. What exactly does Current Pending Sector Count mean? As far as I know this means that the disk can't relocate bad sectors. But does this mean that there is actually a bad sector that needs to be relocated or it's just a possibility?
2. Is there any way to get the disk to relocate the sector, so that I can clone it?
3. (and this one is just for confirmation) How reliable is this disk from now on?
4. Any good app (or way) to clone it, other than Paragon/Acronis?
That's all. I appreciate any help you can get me.