Windows 10: Windows 10 OS cloning Failed due to Bad Sectors on HDD Failure. Now I can't boot on both...

I am trying to replace a faulty HDD in my laptop with a new HDD, so I decided to clone the old HDD to a new one. While cloning the faulty HDD with Minitool Partition Wizard, the cloning got to 91% and kept displaying "Failed to read disk: Error 23" for a long while.I had to unplug the new HDD and in the process stopped the cloning.Now I am trying to boot my laptop on the old faulty HDD, but it now says "BootDevice Not Found. Please install an Operating system on your hard disk"And when I try to do a clean reinstall of windows 10 on the 750GB faulty hard disk, the disk shows "Drive 0 Unallocate

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Failing HDD and Cloning

So if an HDD is slow(Seagate 2TB HDD) and the HDD loads really slow in windows and for scanning how long may a sector by sector cloning take if the HDD if almost all of the 2TB is used up if the cloning is done on a boot up CD?

Basically, the HDD is now painfully slow to load up in windows and takes light years to scan if it does scan.
2TB space almost used up.
It's a Seagate HDD.
Boot into CD software, not windows.
Sector by Sector cloning from there.

Also, if a Seagate software were to exist for this, would it be any faster?

Note: This drive is said to be at 4% health...

At this health, what is the likelihood of recovering all files not in bad sectors?

And what about files in bad sectors?

What is the fastest way to clone a failing HDD and is now really slow?

And what other ways are there to transfer files from this HDD myself?

 

HDD Bad Sector

Hi Nataniel!

I am not sure what your question is exactly, but one thing I'd recommend for sure will be to look for a replacement drive since there is already a bad sector on your current one.

Basically there are two kinds of bad sectors - hardware and software:

• Hardware ones are caused by physical damage or becoming magnetically fixed, and they are unrepairable. In short, once they appear it's only a matter of time (no way to say how long) until the HDD fails.
• Software bad sectors on the other hand occur when something called an Error Correction Code (ECC) doesn't match the contents of the hard drive. These can be repaired by overwriting the data on the drive with zeroes (a.k.a. low level formatting) and sometimes
  by running a **chkdsk [write the letter of the drive:] /r** in the CMD.

As for getting the information from the drive if one of the partitions fail, most likely you won't be able to, which is why I'd suggest to make a regular backup of your most important data.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

 

Failing HDD and Cloning

First of all, a 2TB platter that is almost full cannot be expected to run any faster than a snail. Any HDD that is nearly full will be as fast as a snail.

I'm curious as to where you got the 4% reading. SSDs can generally be read for a long time as it's the writes that count towards its lifetime, but HDDs (I think) are not like that. Don't use it at all, and don't boot from it.

Just leave the computer off, buy the SSD, pull the HDD from the computer, install the SSD and install Windows, then reconnect the HDD and copy over the important files. Take it easy; don't copy the entire thing at once, go one small folder or a few files at a time. It fail to load a folder at times, so just be patient. I've recently had to do this for a 7-year-old 2.5" Seagate drive; its time is nearly up and it was giving me errors the entire time. Thankfully, I was able to, more or less, get the most important files out.