Duplicating an HDD that the SMART has beeen tripped..

[Wolverine16417]

I have a 2+ year old Gateway, that just this last weekend, the SMART on the C drive tripped. Drive will not boot. However, I can still access information from the drive if installed as second drive in a different PC. Therefore, I purchased a repl drive and an external stand-alone Drive duplicator from Newegg. What I would like to know (would make me feel more comfortable), is it safe to duplicate a drive that has a SMART failure?

I can say everything was running fine on the PC prior to the SMART failure.

 

[goombawaho]

The answer is: maybe it will transfer everything over and maybe it won't. How can you say? It might expire right during the copying. Perhaps not.

The safe bet is to get your data off (backed up), put a new hard drive in the system, load the operating system and restore your data.

Personally, I wouldn't have purchased a drive duplicator UNLESS you're going to use it going forward as a form of backup/cloning your (new) hard drive.