Select old HDD as the source disk and click Next. Tick Automatic (recommended) clone mode so it will automatically fit the new SSD. See if that results in any change in symptoms. The bottom line is If you are on the lookout for a serious backup & recovery software to back up your Seagate disc, then the DiscWizard fits your bill a tad too perfect. Start the integrated Seagate DiscWizard from the Seagate SSD and click Clone Disk under the Tools tab. Disk Wizard doesn't need to have an existing pre-formatted partition as a target.

If you want to continue to troubleshoot, use Windows Disk Management to delete the partition on the external disk, leaving the entire external disk as unallocated free space. Since you've already tried the usual troubleshooting step of checking for and installing the latest version of the software, at this point I'm at a loss. For those who may not know, Seagate DiscWizard is a free stripped-down OEM version of Acronis True Image (latest version is now rebranded as Acronis Cyber Protect) disk cloning and backup software available to Seagate SSD/HDD customers. Since running the chkdsk in your posted report, if you've tried cloning again with Disk Wizard and it still fails then there must be some other cause of the problem. I am exploring the use of Seagate DiscWizard with DIY PC. If it keeps finding and fixing the same errors over and over again then that points to unrepairable NTFS file system errors on the source disk.

So if you've run chkdsk again after this and it doesn't find any further errors, then that rules out the usual cause of your symptom. and recreate the partitions using MBR layout with the older Discwizard in XP. In the report that you posted, chkdsk did find and clean up some file system errors. I used a recent version of Seagate Discwizard (a version of the Acronis.

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