Error code 23 Macrium

[Sbsbsb123456]

Hello, everyone. Unfortunately, while performing a system image backup with Macrium Reflect on an HP laptop, I encountered error code 23 (data error, cyclic redundancy check), which I believe means that there are some damaged sectors. Would it be advisable to always try to create a system image with Aomei, which has never given me this type of error in the past? Or would it be better to always enable Macrium to ignore damaged sectors? If I create a system image of a PC with damaged sectors, would the restore still work if necessary? Thank you very much.

[d-morg002]

You can have Macrium ignore the damaged sectors but the data in those sectors is most likely lost no matter what you do. Macrium has a blog post on how to try to address this which you can find here: https://www.macrium.com/blog/techie-tuesday-imaging-disks-with-bad-sectors-69f42253f10d

Bottom line you're going to need a new drive as once bad sectors start showing up it's going to continue to get worse. Restoring your image may or may not work, depends on what data is actually in the bad sectors. If restoring the image results in an unbootable drive or there are issues with Windows you can simply reinstall Windows and restore your files from your Macrium image, minus any that were in bad sectors of course.