I have a 500GB Crucial M4 SSD drive (firmware 040H) in my Windows XP sp3 desktop. The computer crashed a few weeks ago, and at first it didn’t want to reboot (unable to find disk), but after I resat the disk cables, it booted and has been running fine since. I already back up my data to the cloud, but I really would like to have a bootable spare drive so I don’t have to rebuild my computer and download all my data from the cloud. So I bought another identical M4 SSD drive. My plan is to create a disk clone once a month. However, when I try to clone my C drive, the clone fails very quickly with an error message about a CRC error. I tried Macrium Reflect, DriveImageXML and CloneZilla.
After the 1st attempt reported a CRC error, I ran chkdsk and it did find and fix some errors. A subsequent chkdsk reports no errors. Yet the cloning software still aborts due to a CRC error. I can’t seem to find a way to clone my drive, even though the drive seems very useable.
