4k to 92k in bad sectors & cloning drive

I was cleaning up one of my systems & uninstalled Roxio Creator 2012 & Divx as I not need it & after uninstall my system became slow & bad response & did a chkdsk & says found orphaned file etc. & did a chkdsk /f & restarted & fixed problem but when i did a chkdsk again it found 4k of bad sectors. I did some research & tried chkdsk /b & took over 5 hrs & then did a chkdsk & now found 92k of bad sectors & did a chkdsk /f again & now same 92k. I did a system restore to before i uninstalled Roxio & the error was still there but Roxio & Divx was there again.
I also did a clone to a new HD using Acronis True Image 2015 Western Digital edition & cloned but the bad sector was same on new drive but i noticed drive clone not to good i had to install windows 10 from with in windows MCT tool i burned to dvd over it as i did a sfc /scannow on cloned drive & found problems.

How do i remove the flag from Windows or chkdsk displaying the bad sector as the hard drives are fine & on cloned drive is a new drive & made a 2nd clone on a smaller older drive & same thing. Is there something in the registry or a file i need to delete?

Original Hard Drive is a WD 1TB
Cloned is a New WD 2TB
Second Cloned is a Seagate Barracuda 320GB

Last thing as i hear Acronis isn't that great is there any better free cloning software I can try as I make a bootable DVD & use it instead of installing it. I want to clone other pc's as Acronis after you uninstall it leaves to much in registry etc.

DrSysop said:

Last thing as i hear Acronis isn't that great is there any better free cloning software I can try as I make a bootable DVD & use it instead of installing it. I want to clone other pc's as Acronis after you uninstall it leaves to much in registry etc.

Kyhi's recovery tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

Macrium Reflect and AEOMI Partition Assistant both have cloning capability. There are also disk utilities on there too that will probably fix your bad sectors issue, but I am not well versed in using them.

NavyLCDR said:

Kyhi's recovery tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

Macrium Reflect and AEOMI Partition Assistant both have cloning capability. There are also disk utilities on there too that will probably fix your bad sectors issue, but I am not well versed in using them.

Macrium Reflect i need key to it as the free version not have full functions.

How to reset bad sectors:
How to Reset S.M.A.R.T. Errors on a SATA Hard Drive | Chron.com

NavyLCDR said:

How to reset bad sectors:
How to Reset S.M.A.R.T. Errors on a SATA Hard Drive | Chron.com

Thanks, But that not same for Windows 10. The bad sectors been flagged & want to unflag it as the drive is fine. I ran it from properties & says this but no bad sector but no fix errors was there to check but not find errors.

This was in details in event viewer

completed.


Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.


976248828 KB total disk space.
98660004 KB in 157366 files.
99172 KB in 32095 indexes.
449208 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
877040352 KB available on disk.


4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244062207 total allocation units on disk.
219260088 allocation units available on disk.


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Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...


Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...


Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...


Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.


No bad sectors,Now this is results when i use chkdsk from command prompt in admin mode.

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C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OSDisk.


WARNING! /F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.


Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
345344 file records processed.
File verification completed.
6750 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.


Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
409530 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.


Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
32094 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
4637944 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.


Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.


976248828 KB total disk space.
98814708 KB in 157369 files.
99172 KB in 32095 indexes.
92 KB in bad sectors.
448888 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
876885968 KB available on disk.


4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244062207 total allocation units on disk.
219221492 allocation units available on disk.


C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Now this is strange where is that saved? I want to kill that bad sector flag!

Can Disk Editor reset NTFS bad sectors? | Wilders Security Forums

DrSysop said:

How do i remove the flag from Windows or chkdsk displaying the bad sector as the hard drives are fine & on cloned drive is a new drive...

From the 'Chkdsk /?' help...

CHKDSK /B NTFS only: Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume

How do you know the drive is ok? Bad sectors are a hardware fault disk has engineering blocks and bad blocks are reassigned to them so if the drive then shows bad blocks there are a lot and sign of failing drive. Doing a clone will copy them to new drive. The only test is tools free from disk makers website. If you unmark them you will just get data loss and slow speed

Samuria said:

How do you know the drive is ok?

The cloning has copied the bad block table from the bad drive to an otherwise functional new drive. Chkdsk /B should be able to release them for future use. It's what TechNet recommend you should do after cloning.

/b	NTFS only: Clears the list of bad clusters on the volume and rescans all allocated and free clusters for errors. /b includes the functionality of /r. Use this parameter after imaging a volume to a new hard disk drive.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...(v=ws.11).aspx

[QUOTE=Bree;956578]The cloning has copied the bad block table from the bad drive to an otherwise functional new drive. Chkdsk /B should be able to release them for future use. It's what TechNet recommend you should do after cloning.


OK i used WD check program & the drive is fine & healthy. So the cloned drive i should do a chkdsk /r after i done & the bad block./ sectors on that drive will go away?