Joined: January 30th, 2012, 13:17 Posts: 12 Location: Italy
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Thanks. I will explain the problem from the beginning. This hard disk was the main disk of the PC and gave problems with windows. Before attempting to restore win, to avoid risks, I decided to clone the 500gb (wd5000aaks) disk on a 1 tb virgin using programs like aomei backupper and easeus partition master (which has the clone function). Performing this work with a laptop I connected a dockstation (salcar) that houses two HDD slots on a single USB port. The disks are recognized correctly but I have only noticed a serious error now. Simulating cloning again with two disks of little importance I saw that from the easeus program and inserting two disks of different sizes are both seen of the size of the disk 1. It must be a defect that are on the same usb port or a defect in the dockstation (also if the manufacturer guarantees that it is made specifically for cloning disks) using two different dockstations with the same programs are seen of the correct size. I doubt that the dockstation is defective and during cloning the two disks "mixed" (or even cloned the empty disk on the full one) or the program (to which I am very sure I gave the correct settings) committed a error between disk 1 and disk 2 (which should not have happened) otherwise I can't explain why aomei failed to clone (disk 2 remained intact) and with easeus after rebooting disk one was no longer legible. I can tell you that disk 1 (the one with the data) has never shown any strange noises, data loss or errors. I did a scan with recuva and found more than a million files but says that it failed to recover 500k (even if in reading all the files are not overwritten) I would exclude head problems but making a cloning with this dockstation could have been lost the mbr table. I kindly ask you two things. Which is the best diagnostic program I can use to understand what the disk problem is? And then as a recommended data recovery program (once I used easy recovery and it worked great, now the new versions seem to me less good) chk f can create problems?
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