ERROR MESSAGE?

Question

I hope someone out there can translate this for me because I'm not a computer literate person here so bare with me please.

I downloaded a 15 day trial version of the "Acronis True Image 9.0" to copy my old 80 GB hard drive to a new 120 GB Western Digital hard drive on my Dell Dimension 4500. While during this process it showed an error message which stated "Unable to read disk 1 sector 6003466". What does this mean?

After everything was done and cables were swapped around along with the jumper settings and the computer was turned on. It seemed everything went well so I then went ahead and reformatted and partitioned my old hard drive to be a slave/extra storage space drive.

Also, when I asked Acronis if their software can copy my entire hard drive including OS in all to a new hard drive they stated this here; "Acronis True Image program uses a special method of "snapshot" image creation, it doesn't store the standalone files or directories, but saves blocks of hard drive data, saving the information about disk/partition geometry"

Now like I said, I had already deleted my old hard drive and reformatted it. Now if their software doesn't store standalone files or directories (whatever those are) then did I just erased them and did I just ruin my computer here. Did I need those standalone files and or directories?

Would appreciate to hear from anyone regarding this.

europa303 · Answer

I used True Image a few months ago to clone an old hard disk to a new and it worked perfectly.  Did you chose the clone option and not one of the backup options?  As to your sector issue, it just sounds like some small portion of your old disk could not be read and there is a real possibility that whatever data was there, if any, could not be transferred.  No telling what it is or was howeever.   As to your standalone files question, frankly, I don't know what they're talking about.  Bottom line:  Is your computer working correctly?

MJB3648 · Answer

Yes my computer is working fine, so far. I was just wondering what that error message was talking about and was it important that's all. Because if I needed that information, I don't have it now because I erased my old hard drive.

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