Cloning A Corrupt Hard Drive

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Hope you guys can enlighten me a little here, i've had a problem with the hard drive on my MSI GE70 laptop running windows 8.1 whereas it kept crashing with the error "kernal error inpage".

Ive managed to do a ram check which has come back ok so reading on the internet I assume it is bad sectors on the hard drive.

If I buy a new hard drive and clone the corrupt one, will the corruption be copied over, (apologies if this is a ridiculous question).

Also will the windows key be copied over to the new hard drive?

thanks
 
If it is bad sectors, then whatever is in those sectors will be lost.

Cloning may give you a drive that has no bad sectors, but if the bad sectors on the source contained core Windows files then you'll still have a problem when you boot up with the clone as the data would not have been readable.

Bad sectors aren't the end of the world, once the drive knows they are bad then it will stop using them (in theory, but check out http://www.howtogeek.com/173463/bad...get-bad-sectors-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ for a more detailed explaination).

On a cloned drive, all your Windows activation data will be copied over as well, so that part wouldn't be a problem.

Even if the clone still has the same problem, you could now run a Windows repair on the clone - this may replace any missing/corrupt files and allow windows to boot up again - and if anything goes wrong, you still have the original and can try again.
 
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