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SSD toast ??
Once upon a time my old HD was successfuly cloned to new Samsung SSD 860 EVO. All was well until i tried to "image" the SSD to external HD for backup using USB cable - it failed apparently due to bad sector(s). Running CHKDSK to fix bad sectors was a DISASTER resulting in possibly toasted SSD. The MS "repair" pgm was run from CD with resulting SSD contents (files & fldrs) appearing to be normal (to my untrained eye) but booting from it is not possible. So the original HD was re-installed and appears to be running well except that CHKDSK cannot fix errs found on old HD since "hash totals do not agree" according to CBS.LOG (in preparation for re-cloning HD to SSD it seemed wise to first chk status of HD). So now: (1) the original HD still runs well but cannot be used as source for cloning to SSD and also cannot be fixed using CHKDSK (2) the SSD which was the target for previous successful HD clone is now unusable even 'tho files & fldrs on SSD appear to be normal. There is no Win 10 install CD avail. Shd CBS.log be sent to MS for analysis ?? Any other suggestions for successful SSD cloning ?? Thanx.
Bewildered Bob
ps: Win 10 bild 1809 is installed.