Recovering SSD with bad blocks?  

You should note if you have taken a standard image and it has had booked and you restore it to a new drive it will write all the bad blocks to the new drive which will be permanent

ignatzatsonic said:

We can't see your pic, but a standard Win 10 installation can create as many as 5 partitions on the drive...C and 4 more.

Hopefully this works:


What are 1, 2, 3, and 5 above?

ignatzatsonic said:

What drive did you order? I'd stay with a well known name brand---Crucial, Samsung, Western Digital, Intel, etc.

Your current SSD is less than half full, so there may not be any reason to buy a larger one. Larger drives can have slightly better performance as well as a larger TBW rating, but I wouldn't let that be the deciding factor when purchasing. Think about capacity, price, basic performance numbers, warranty, and the relationship with the seller.

I am awaiting a Samsung, 512 GB SSD.

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Samuria said:

You should note if you have taken a standard image and it has had booked and you restore it to a new drive it will write all the bad blocks to the new drive which will be permanent

How do I prevent the copying of the bad blocks? What do you mean by booked?

Those other partitions are all standard Win 10 stuff. Looks nearly identical to mine. They are very small. Windows may resize them over time or may even add a new partition---all part of the installation and Windows Update process. Just ignore them, but normally you WOULD include them in a Macrium image by putting a tick in each of those individual boxes under the partition. Your pic shows a tick only under the C partition.

Good choice on the Samsung. What model? 970 is the most recent I think, with the 970 Evo Plus being the most recent iteration.

By "has had booked" he may have meant "it has bad blocks"? Guessing.

topgundcp said:

Running Macrium in WinPE environment (from KHYI's EinPESE) will not give you the option to skip the bad blocks. You'd need to install Macrium and run it online. Click on Other Tasks->edit defaults->Advanced ...Put a tick mark on ignore bad sectors.... then do a backup. This will save all your Data on the SSD. However, until you replace the SSD, restore the image, you will have to run Windows setup again to repair all the missing files.

I finally understand this. Took a while. Earlier I had thought I would just install the latest version of Macrium Reflect with in the WinPE environment and I would be able to skip the bad blocks but as I found out that the Other Tasks were still limited:


But when I installed Macrium on my Laptop then all the other choices in Other Tasks now appear:


Now, I understand I will have to properly image this from my Laptop. (I’ve got an external drive enclosure coming too.)

However, until you replace the SSD, restore the image, you will have to run Windows setup again to repair all the missing files.

Assuming I get the image restored properly, where do I run Windows setup from?

Thanks much,
Jeff

topgundcp said:

Watch the video:
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

Got new SSD. Copied the image from old SSD using intelligent sector copy while ignoring bad blocks. Just to be sure, I even ran HT Tune to make sure the bad blocks were not copied. All okay.

I have gone through the Repair tutorial several times. It seems like all of the examples are for a working system of which mine is not. I have set up a disc with the Media Installation Tool. There are no real upgrade options. I tried to install Windows from the media installation and trying the upgrade option. However, it says the upgrade option isn't available if you start your computer using the installation media.

If I try the repair option on boot of the Media Installation, it cannot repair just as was the case with the corrupted SSD.

What a drag.

Jeff

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I did do little more checking around. I saw there was information here about DISM and in particular found this: Use DISM to Repair Windows 10 Image

For the heck of it, I tried it out on the healthy SSD that will not boot into Windows by booting with the media disk and following the above Use DISM to Repair Windows 10 Image.


Then I did a /CheckHealth


I was surprised to see No component store corruption detected.