Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
March 18th, 2013, 20:55
When imaging a drive, does it have to be formatted in the same format as Source?
For example, if the Source HDD is HFS+, do you have to format the Destination drive as
HFS+ plus BEFORE the imaging process?
March 18th, 2013, 21:37
No. In fact, it's best if zeroed out, w/ no bad sectors or other issues.
If the OS transfers perfectly, great. If not, welcome to data recovery!
March 18th, 2013, 21:47
But if it had a HFS+ partition still on it and the Source drive was NTFS
would this make a difference?
March 18th, 2013, 22:03
You're not listening . . .
March 19th, 2013, 0:03
Agree if you wan to clone a drive to a drive you used before zerofill the HDD and then clone it. Do not try and clone the drive that has data on it before. Jono-Ats is correct on this one and that is how it works.
March 19th, 2013, 4:22
Putting a signature is even better to find bad sectors afterwards.
Dobre
March 19th, 2013, 5:34
You want the destination completely zeroed, or else your resulting image will have bits and pieces of other data in it if the image wasn't 100%
Unless you have a proper tool like a DDI which will wipe/zero the unread sectors after the imaging is complete.
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