Hard Disk Problems - HD Sentinel

[TheUte]

Originally Posted by Dr. Gigglepants

Thanks for the tip...Acronis also says disk failure is predicted.

I picked up a WD Black 750 GB HD, now to figure out how to use the backup and system image I did yesterday to fix this...

I've never done this, I've only re installed windows from a boot disc. Any advice?

You really have a lot of options.

WD has a free version, http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...l.asp?swid=119.


I have heard good things about http://www.xxclone.com/, never used it though.

You can also mirror the bad Drive to a new one, depending on the OS you are using. The down side to disk mirroring is some other backup software does not like "Dynamic disks". But using DD is the easiest. I just remember that there is a bug in Windows 7, Sometimes mirroring drives that are different can fail with an "Extents are not the same".

So if you are running Win 7 try a different method.