Can anyone help?

[john12555]

Recently my com got laggy and choppy and during a scheduled hardware diagnostic test, the HDD failed the SMART test and was recommended to replace it.
So I went to bought a new HDD and a SATA to usb cable as my com is a prebuilt one that only has a slot for HDD. I tried using windows 7's creating system image option but got an error in doing so. The error was "One of the backup files could not be created (0x8078002A)". Additional information: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error (0x8007045D). I tried googling the error and many ppl suggested doing disk check for the drives. I tried doing it multiple times but this error still came out.
I then tried using Macrium Reflect Free to clone my old HDD to the new one. However, an error saying Incompatible disk selected, The target disk has an incompatible sector size for this operation. Please choose a different disk.

Am a computer retard, can anyone teach me what to do?
Thank you very much

 

[HairySpice]

Do a clean installation see what happens, from there you roughly know the problem.

Sometimes could be faulty image. Or image not read properly.

 

[Lil_d3viLz]

Hdd failing SMART test, i thought suppossed to be a goner already. can throw into rubbish bin. How to clone imagine from faulty HDD which the sectors are un-readable?

Unless u can afford paying for HDD recovery which is very pricey.

 

[john12555]

Hdd failing SMART test, i thought suppossed to be a goner already. can throw into rubbish bin. How to clone imagine from faulty HDD which the sectors are un-readable?

Unless u can afford paying for HDD recovery which is very pricey.

somehow it still can boot and function although its very laggy. Is there anyway to transfer OS from the old hdd to the new one? I transferred most of the files that I want alr to a thumbdrive.

 

[jtjt00]

Not advisable to clone as likely to fail due to unreadable sectors. Best is to copy out whatever data you need.

 

[havetobuy]

somehow it still can boot and function although its very laggy. Is there anyway to transfer OS from the old hdd to the new one? I transferred most of the files that I want alr to a thumbdrive.

clone any drive no problemo
butt onced cloned all yr ole dirts/bugs also cloned over

opps
below u mentioned HDD gonna mati
no hoped lioa

 

[john12555]

Is it possible to transfer the OS from the old hdd to the new one? Or i must download and burn the OS installation to a disc and boot from the disc after i change the hdd as i lost my recovery disc

 

[peterchan75]

Is it possible to transfer the OS from the old hdd to the new one? Or i must download and burn the OS installation to a disc and boot from the disc after i change the hdd as i lost my recovery disc

Usually the cloning should work but your current hard disk has read error. So you don't have a clean source and you will not be able to clone it. Do a clean installation and copy whatever data that you can recover from your old hard disk. If you don't have a OS disc, can borrow from someone and use the key on your Window license sticker on your system.