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11 October 2023  John Weaver  Senior Program Developer
 

Summary
Learn how to clone a hard disk with bad sectors to prevent data loss. Safeguard your information by copying it to a working storage device.



Table of contents

table iconI. What is a bad sector?
table iconII. Use Renee Becca to clone a hard disk with bad sectors
table iconIII. How to repair the bad sectors of the original hard disk?
clone hard drive with bad sectors

I. What is a bad sector?

Bad sectors (Bad sectors), also known as bad sectors, are permanently damaged storage units on a hard disk. Once a sector is damaged, all information saved in that section will be lost. Normally, operating systems like Windows 10/8/7 will skip a bad sector after finding and marking it. Bad sectors are generally divided into two types: hard bad sectors (also known as physical bad sectors) and soft bad sectors (also known as logical bad sectors). Hard bad sectors are mainly caused by physical damage, such as problems in manufacturing, physical damage, etc.; soft bad sectors are usually related to software problems, such as improper operation of the hard disk, file system errors, etc.
If your hard disk cannot be used normally occasionally, or if you scan it with a special bad sector detection tool, the result is that there are multiple bad sectors, it is recommended that you copy/clone the data in the hard disk to other normal disks as soon as possible to avoid data loss. Here I would like to recommend a powerful hard disk cloning tool – Renee Becca . This software not only has a variety of disk cloning functions, but also has data backup and restoration functions. In addition, general hard disk cloning software will not be able to clone successfully when encountering a hard disk with bad sectors. Renee Becca can ignore bad sectors and make the cloning process go smoothly , Let’s go find out together.

II. Use Renee Becca to clone a hard disk with bad sectors

1. What is Renee Becca?

Renee Becca is a tool specially used for system/hard disk data backup and restoration. It can help you back up and restore important data in your computer, such as programs, system configuration, emails, photos, videos, documents, bookmarks, etc. In addition, you can also use it to clone disk and system data. The software provides three cloning methods, including hard disk cloning/cloning system hard disk; partition cloning and system migration. You can choose the most suitable cloning method according to your different needs.
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2. How to use Renee Becca to clone hard disk?

It is very simple to clone a hard drive with the help of Renee Becca, the specific steps are as follows:
Step 1: Download, install and run Renee Becca, select the option (Hard Disk Clone/Clone System Disk) in the main interface (Clone) column.
select to clone hard disk within renee becca
Clone function description:
Hard Disk Clone/Clone System Disk: Creates an exact copy of the selected disk. It supports moving the partition boundary with the mouse to adjust the partition size, and cloning the system disk so that the cloned hard disk can be started.
Partition clone: Creates an exact copy of the selected partition.
System Redeploy: Support to migrate the system to another hard disk.
Step 2: Next, select the original disk to be cloned and the pre-replaced hard disk in the (source) and (destination location) of the pop-up “Disk Clone” pop-up window. You can click the (Option) button in the lower left corner to confirm whether it is checked ( ignore bad sectors ) (Generally, it is checked by default. After this option is checked, the software will use intelligent algorithms to read readable data in bad sectors as much as possible. When the data in bad sectors cannot be read, it will be ignored). Finally, click the (Clone) button to execute the command to clone the hard disk. Cloning the hard disk will overwrite the data on the target hard disk, please make a file backup in advance.
clone disk to samsung ssd with renee becca
After the hard disk is cloned successfully, the bad sectors in the original hard disk can be repaired.

III. How to repair the bad sectors of the original hard disk?

You can repair bad sectors by running the Chkdsk command and formatting the hard disk device.

1. Run the Chkdsk command to repair logical bad sectors

Using the Chkdsk command, it can help you repair a file system that has been corrupted due to bad sectors in the drive. To execute the Chkdsk utility on the hard drive, follow these steps:
Step 1: Connect the faulty hard disk to the computer, search (cmd) in the search box in the lower left corner, and select (run as administrator) to open the command prompt tool.
run as administrator
Step 2: In the opened command prompt window, enter the command ( chkdsk X: /r /f ) (X: refers to the hard drive letter; /r and /f are repair parameters) and press (Enter) to repair the error. After the repair is complete, check whether the hard disk device works normally.
Enter the disk repair command

2. Format the hard disk

Formatting the faulty hard disk can repair various faults in the hard disk, such as bad sectors, and make the hard disk work normally again. The detailed operation steps of formatting the hard disk are as follows:
Step 1: Connect the faulty hard disk to the computer, and then press the (Windows+X) keys on the keyboard at the same time. Then in the pop-up list, select the (Disk Management) option.
open windows disk management
Step 2: Next, find the device that needs to be formatted, right-click on it and select the (Format) option.
right click to select format sd card in disk management
Step 3: Select the required file system: FAT32, NTFS or exFAT, please select NTFS here. Check (Perform a quick format), click (OK) and follow the instructions to complete the formatting process. After the formatting operation is completed, the hard disk failure can be repaired.
perform quick format disk management
Kind tips If the above two methods are not effective, you can also check more methods for repairing hard disk bad sectors (bad sectors).