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The problem with an external HD is I move my laptop around a lot, and it's just not convenient to have a hard drive connected to it all the time. I do have one which I use too, but I'd rather have a second drive inside the laptop. I've done a bit of research and apparently bad sectors can't be caused by a dodgy enclosure or cable, they're an inherent problem with the drive. So I'll carry on using the caddy.
Did you abandon the cloning?
I decided to leave it running while I wait for my replacement drive to arrive (it's an advance RMA). I'm doing it with my spare laptop with the two drives plugged in via USB. It started going a bit faster and has got up to 66GB now, although its still gonna take a while to finish. Maybe I should try using fastcopy, but the drive was incredibly unresponsive in Windows, and TeraCopy just wasn't working at all when I tried it before I started cloning it, so I'm not sure it will work.
If it ain't broke don't break it.
Let the cloning do it's thing and if that doesn't work then you have alternatives.