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For the past few weeks, Windows 7 started locking tight at random.
Originally, I assumed it could be a bug in Flash or the video driver, as it seemed to happen when I was watching videos through Google Chrome, but it kept doing the same thing with Firefox.
I figured it could be a hardware issue, and ran the open-source CrystalDiskInfo utility today, which warned me that the system disk (first partition on disk) had some issues.
So I just bought a new SATA disk of the exact same size as the dying system disk, and tried to run Clonezilla to clone the old disk onto the new one.
However, Clonezilla fails after a few minutes with several occurences of the following error:
May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.474491] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.474515] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x24 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.474530] ata2.00: failed command: READ DMA May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.474549] ata2.00: cmd c8/00:08:48:82:da/00:00:00:00:00/e4 tag 0 dma 4096 in May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.474550] res 51/40:00:48:82:da/00:00:00:00:00/e4 Emask 0x9 (media error) May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.474600] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.474615] ata2.00: error: { UNC } May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496400] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496409] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [
2189.496411] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496415] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496419] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [
2189.496421] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496428] 04 da 82 48 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496431] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496436] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 04 da 82 48 00 00 08 00 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496444] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 81429064 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496465] quiet_error: 22 callbacks suppressed May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496468] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 81427016 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [
2189.496493] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 81427017 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496558] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 81427018 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [
2189.496617] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 81427019 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496676] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 81427020 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [
2189.496735] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 81427021 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496795] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 81427022 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [
2189.496854] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 81427023 May 6 23:23:06 precise kernel: [ 2189.496923] ata2: EH complete
I don't know how good a job Clonezilla does with so-so disks. Before giving up, is there a better utility you would recommend, that would try several times, and possibly perform a slower job before failing?
Thank you.
Any tool you ran you have to use the option to skip over any bad sectors. But we can't list those alternatives because software recommendations are not on topic. There are tons of questions on this website website which suggest tools like CloneZilla anyways. – Ramhound – 2014-05-06T22:30:39.787
Thanks for the feedback. A better solution is using an application that 1) boots from a USB key instead of running within Windows and 2) handles faulty sectors unlike CZ which just gives up altogether.
Both answers below look good. – OverTheRainbow – 2014-05-07T10:27:43.210
There are lots of tools that provided Windows can still boot could create an image and ignore the bad sectors. I am pretty sure Clonezilla can be configured to ignore sector errors. – Ramhound – 2014-05-07T11:10:25.857
@OverTheRainbow You can make a bootable Clonezilla live USB. Also, you can continue when there are disk read errors if you enable the
– and31415 – 2014-05-07T13:30:37.030-rescue
parameter (available under the Expert mode).