Frequent error with partition image

bege <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
maybe this is an offtopic post, I couldn't find a solution for this 
error elsewhere. (The respective software forum is not open to users of 
the free version.)
I use Macrium Reflect Free to create an image of the boot and system 
partition of Windows 7 on the internal HDD to an external HDD. (I have 
only these two disks and have no other to test with another external HDD.)
Verification of the image posted errors of more than every other image 
file. With other imaging tools it is more or less the same. So this 
should not be a software problem.
The SMART log of the two HDDs is attached. (The pending sector for 
allocation on the internal HDD is much newer than this problem. The 
SMART status of the two HDDs had not changed for a long period.)
I found out that writing the image to the data partition of the internal 
HDD does not create verification errors. So I thought there must be a 
problem with the external HDD. But smartmontools doesn't report any. 
Additionally, copying the image to the external HDD also works fine, and 
file-by-file backups from the internal to the external HDD also work fine.

For now I have this workaround: Create the boot and system partition 
image to the data partition of the internal HDD - then copy the image 
file to the external HDD with FastCopy - then verify the image file on 
the external HDD. Very seldom I receive a notice about a verification error.

Where is the problem and the reason for the frequent errors in case of 
writing an image directly to the external HDD?
Does someone have a clue? Thank you very much.
Regards
Bernd

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smartctl 6.3 2014-06-23 r3922 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-win7-sp1] (cf-20140623)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===			[internal HDD]
Model Family:     SAMSUNG SpinPoint M5
Device Model:     SAMSUNG HM160HI
Serial Number:    S10UJD0S560510
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0f0000 003560510
Firmware Version: HH100-08
User Capacity:    160.041.885.696 bytes [160 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS, ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 0
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.5, 1.5 Gb/s
Local Time is:    Sat Jul 19 21:02:53 2014 MS
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)	Offline data collection activity
					was never started.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      ( 112)	The previous self-test completed having
					the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		(   55) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					No Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (  55) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x003f)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       24
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   252   252   025    Pre-fail  Always       -       2000
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   094   094   000    Old_age   Always       -       6926
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       2
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000e   252   252   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0024   252   252   015    Old_age   Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   086   086   000    Old_age   Always       -       7107
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   051    Old_age   Always       -       5
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       3566
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   002   002   000    Old_age   Always       -       999999
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       214
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   085   070   000    Old_age   Always       -       51 (Min/Max 10/56)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       24
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   252   252   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       1
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate    0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       3278
225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   080   080   000    Old_age   Always       -       203243

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       00%      7101         121893751
# 2  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7098         121893751
# 3  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7090         121893751
# 4  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7090         121893751
# 5  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7090         121893751
# 6  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7090         121893751
# 7  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7090         121893751
# 8  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7090         121893751
# 9  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7089         121893751
#10  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7086         121893751
#11  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7082         121893751
#12  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7072         121893751
#13  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7072         121893751
#14  Short offline       Completed: read failure       00%      7070         121893751
#15  Extended offline    Aborted by host               70%      7063         -
#16  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      7055         -
#17  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      7037         -
#18  Short offline       Aborted by host               80%      7035         -
#19  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      7018         -
#20  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      6973         -
#21  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      6971         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Completed_read_failure [00% left] (0-65535)
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

smartctl 6.3 2014-06-23 r3922 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-win7-sp1] (cf-20140623)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===			[external HDD]
Model Family:     SAMSUNG SpinPoint T133
Device Model:     SAMSUNG HD400LD
Serial Number:    S0AXJ1PP215218
Firmware Version: WQ100-14
User Capacity:    400.088.457.216 bytes [400 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 4a
Local Time is:    Sat Jul 19 21:02:54 2014 MS
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status not supported: Invalid status byte (0xff) [JMicron]
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)	Offline data collection activity
					was never started.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		( 7640) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					No Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 130) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x003f)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   100   100   015    Pre-fail  Always       -       7936
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1174
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   253   253   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0025   253   253   015    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1407
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   253   253   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012   253   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       884
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   051   048   000    Old_age   Always       -       49
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   091   082   000    Old_age   Always       -       49
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       522360
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   253   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   253   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate    0x000a   253   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1400         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1400         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1400         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1400         -
# 5  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1400         -
# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1400         -
# 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1400         -
# 8  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      1398         -
# 9  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1378         -
#10  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1377         -
#11  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1377         -
#12  Short offline       Interrupted (host reset)      30%      1376         -
#13  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1376         -
#14  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1376         -
#15  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1376         -
#16  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1376         -
#17  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1375         -
#18  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      1363         -
#19  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      1356         -
#20  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1354         -
#21  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1342         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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