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Hello i have a laptop hdd with many bad sectors and growing with tons of important files like work and the some, but the hdd is working  its just slow. 
To get those files ill buy a new one and clone the bad one to the new one , will that work and restore everything?? Just found it while searching the internet..

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12 minutes ago, 0oGOkuo0 said:

Hello i have a laptop hdd with many bad sectors and growing with tons of important files like work and the some, but the hdd is working  its just slow. 
To get those files ill buy a new one and clone the bad one to the new one , will that work and restore everything?? Just found it while searching the internet..

Yes, but, your going to need a computer to plug them both into as it will be pretty slow over USB...

 

If you have a computer you can pop them both into, you can use Macrium reflect and clone the bad drive to the new drive as long as the new drive is the same size or larger. Just remember, a clone will put a large load on the bad drive, if there are VERY important files, I would first copy off the most critical to a USB drive or flash drive, and then do the clone. Its possible to kill an almost dead drive with a clone... its not likely, but its possible.

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3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Yes, but, your going to need a computer to plug them both into as it will be pretty slow over USB...

 

If you have a computer you can pop them both into, you can use Macrium reflect and clone the bad drive to the new drive as long as the new drive is the same size or larger. Just remember, a clone will put a large load on the bad drive, if there are VERY important files, I would first copy off the most critical to a USB drive or flash drive, and then do the clone. Its possible to kill an almost dead drive with a clone... its not likely, but its possible.

I did try to copy a file 33Gb file but its going up and down, going max speed the later zero then back again then zero

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5 minutes ago, 0oGOkuo0 said:

I did try to copy a file 33Gb file but its going up and down, going max speed the later zero then back again then zero

I would try and let it do that... it sounds like that drive is not doing very well at all. A full clone could well kill it. Try and get the most critical things off, then try and clone it.

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