SSD is reporting poor health in SMART

clickcell · Dec 8, 2023

I do have one issue with it now. My boot ssd is reporting poor health in SMART so I am trying to clone it to a new one using Macrium reflect disk clone but the cloned disk is not bootable, just gets to a blue screen about missing boot files. But it has identical files to the other one. I am confused.

Maxstar · Dec 8, 2023

Hi,

Since this is not a Windows Update problem, I have split off your question from this thread.

Could you please provide the following dumpfiles if exists, although it looks like an issue with the EFI/ESP partition.

C:\Windows\Minidump\*.dmp
C:\Windows\Memory.dmp

However, personally I never recommend to clone a bad drive because you will copy over the corruptions to the new drive. Which usually results in an unstable system and/or other issues in the future.

clickcell · Dec 8, 2023

Maxstar said:
However, personally I never recommend to clone a bad drive because you will copy over the corruptions to the new drive. Which usually results in an unstable system and/or other issues in the future.

It doesn't have bad sectors yet, just says 77% health in SMART so this is designed to be preventative maintenance.

I have a minidump file but it's from 17th November so maybe not relevant?

clickcell · Dec 8, 2023

Here is the info for old and new drives

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