Failing HDD

[TheMajesticSeal]

My current hdd seems to be failing with 900 gb of storage. Now i just got a new hdd with 2tb the only problem is it wont let me clone my old disk to the new one because of an incompatible sector size. What do i do because im lost.

[Naeaes]

Since the old drive is failing, cloning is the last thing you want to do. You do not want to clone the sectors with diminished readability. Instead, install the OS fresh on the new drive and copy the data over. I'd used something like ROBOCOPY for that large a batch of data.

 

"whine whine whine I don't want to reinstall my stuff."

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[Triventular]

try formatting the new drive with the same allocation file size as the drive you're copying from.

I have a dying drive in my pc lol it used to click and make some noise and its just a laptop hard drive haha but now after moving os and most of my games on an ssd, its working normally but its due for an upgrade 

[SImoHayha]

16 minutes ago, TheMajesticSeal said:

My current hdd seems to be failing with 900 gb of storage. Now i just got a new hdd with 2tb the only problem is it wont let me clone my old disk to the new one because of an incompatible sector size. What do i do because im lost.

Hmm if you could, you could clone the drive/make a copy of the drive contents and post it somewhere then pick and pull what you want to the new HDD

[RejZoR]

Don't clone it as it'll put greater sustained stress on it than it might be able to take. Plug it in as second drive next to new one and copy important files over in smaller batches. Ignore things you can redownload or install from DVD's or keep them for last.