Cloning a Hard Disk to an SSD

[DanielPatrick]

I have just bought an SSD hard disk and would like to clone it. Does the data from the source gets deleted? Since I have some bad sectors on the old hard disk which isn't an SSD, would the clone be able to fix the bad sectors? On a side note, does a program exist that fixes bad sectors of your hard disk?

 

[Darren]

I have just bought an SSD hard disk and would like to clone it. Does the data from the source gets deleted? Since I have some bad sectors on the old hard disk which isn't an SSD, would the clone be able to fix the bad sectors? On a side note, does a program exist that fixes bad sectors of your hard disk?

Source does not get deleted. Cloning will not fix bad sectors. If it were a conventional HDD Seatools can repair Seagate drives (other companies have similar utilities) but SSD's I'm unsure what software you'd use for that as you don't want to run something like Seatools on it if you can avoid it.

 

[johnb35]

Sectors don't get repaired, they just get marked as bad so OS doesn't use them. And once you start getting bad sectors its just a matter of time before more bad sectors appear.

And not sure if I would clone a drive that has bad sectors on it. Fresh install to an SSD is always the best choice anyway. Then copy data over that you need.