macrium reflect clone ignore bad sectors

This ensures all file system clusters are located on good sectors.

Immediately create an Image of your drive.

This operation maps out any bad sectors in use by the file system. This requires a reboot to complete and may take some time.

The /r switch is important and causes the entire file system to be checked for bad sectors.

Run chkdsk c: /r from a command prompt, replacing c: with the appropriate drive letter.

See Running an elevated command prompt for help with this.

Open a command prompt with elevated privileges.

Run chkdsk on the problem drive to reallocate file system clusters to undamaged disk sectors: This is considered a fatal condition because data cannot be read and the image aborts. If a bad sector is encountered during image creation then you receive this error in your backup log:īackup aborted! Unable to read from disk - Error Code 23 - Data error (cyclic redundancy check). See this Wikipedia article for more information. It is possible, however, to manage the situation and create an Image for restoring or mounting and copying files and folders. This can signify that your hard drive is coming to the end of its life.

A disk with bad sectors is permanently damaged and, if the bad sectors are in use by the file system, it is very likely that data in the damaged area is unrecoverable.

Macrium reflect clone ignore bad sectors