JarJarBinks
Limp Gawd
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I'm not sure if this belongs in operating systems or storage devices but oh well.
So here is my problem and here is what I want to do:
I had a hard drive in a laptop experience a fall and damage some sectors and now windows 10 won't boot.
I took the drive out and did a scan on it and it seems most of the bad sectors are near the beginning of the disk.
I tried cloning the entire drive to a new drive but windows won't boot, I did SFC /scannow to the new cloned drive, Check Disk, and a virus scan before putting in back into the laptop. But no improvement.
What I want to try is this:
These are the standard windows 10 partitions:
Recovery/System Partition
EFI Partition
Reserved Partition
Data Partition
I want to do a fresh install so I get brand new partitions (because I think that is where the damage is), but then I want to clone just the Data partition from the old drive to this new drive with the fresh install.
Has anyone done it, did it work for you, do you suggest giving it a try?
Thanks for all your help.
So here is my problem and here is what I want to do:
I had a hard drive in a laptop experience a fall and damage some sectors and now windows 10 won't boot.
I took the drive out and did a scan on it and it seems most of the bad sectors are near the beginning of the disk.
I tried cloning the entire drive to a new drive but windows won't boot, I did SFC /scannow to the new cloned drive, Check Disk, and a virus scan before putting in back into the laptop. But no improvement.
What I want to try is this:
These are the standard windows 10 partitions:
Recovery/System Partition
EFI Partition
Reserved Partition
Data Partition
I want to do a fresh install so I get brand new partitions (because I think that is where the damage is), but then I want to clone just the Data partition from the old drive to this new drive with the fresh install.
Has anyone done it, did it work for you, do you suggest giving it a try?
Thanks for all your help.