Approx 600gb of the 1TB drive is currently used and accessible(Dell 8500). All data has successfully been copied to an external drive after receiving the "Bad Sectors, Corrupt MFT" when an image backup was attempted. From brief review, much of the data appears to be duplicate folders/files that are already stored on another machine running Windows 10(HP Envy). The Dell 8500 also serves as a printer server for 2 printers.
The original plan after completing the HP build was to convert the Dell 8500 to Win 10 and install a 3 TB WD My Cloud both as a Cloud storage device and to support scheduled image backups. A 1TB Seagate external would be used to support image backups of the Cloud Data Storage as a redundancy. I know this is not the ideal configuration as an ultimate cloud/backup solution but budget mandates dictated the config as the most feasible affordable solution. So my few questions are:
- What is the best method to address the bad sectors; chkdsk /r, chkdsk /b or a third party solution?
- If I run Win 7 recovery will that address the bad sectors AND the corrupt MFT files?
- If both #1 & #2 have to be run, which should be run first? I'm assuming chkdsk?
- Will deleting the duplicates folders/files, estimated in excess of 200GB, improve the success ratio of "repairing" the bad sectors given that more "free" sectors will be available?
- Is it reasonable to put forth the effort in converting the drive to Win 10, if repaired, or am I simply patching up holes in an already sinking ship? (the existing 1TB HDD with bad sectors).
Perhaps the wisest solution would be to install a 250gb SSD which should be affordable at