WD2001FFSX unclonable

[Manfred]

Dear Forumers,

Firstly, I'm sorry for my bad english, I still hope to explain adequately my problem.
I have 2 Hard Drives:

1x WD Red Pro WD2001FFSX - 2.0TB
1x WD Green WD20EZRX - 2.0TB

My goal is to clone the first drive (Red Pro) on the second drive (Green).

Actually I've tried with this software, witout success:

Ghost (with and without raw mode)
True Image
HDClone 5 (free)

During the clone the copy speed is very low (sometimes under 1MB/s) ed after 50~60% the speed slow down to 0MB/s witout complete the clone (but not errors are offered).

The smart attributes are excellent for both drives, the analysis of the surface is OK for both drives, the working speed of both drives is right (the Red Pro work on a little server with CentOS, the Green was tested with Ubuntu on a other PC).

Any ideas about this curious problem?

Thanks in advance

[pcimage]

Try dd_rescue

[data-medics]

Actually I'd say that the drive probably needs the WD Slow Responding Fix to image properly given the 1Mb/s imaging speed. If you can get it to someone with PC-3000 will only take a few minutes to run the fix and then it should be able to image at a good speed again.

And yes, ddrescue is the best software option to image such a drive. Here's a tutorial of how to use it: https://www.data-medics.com/forum/viewt ... f=21&t=133

Hope it helps.

[pcimage]

By the OP's statements of "the analysis of the surface is OK for both drives" and "the working speed of both drives is right" I had taken that as it states.

[data-medics]

True, I guess I missed the part where he said "sometimes" it images at 1Mb/s. Possibly is just bad/slow sectors. Definitely worth trying ddrescue.

[pcimage]

But hardware assisted cloning might end up to be "mandatory" on this case ...

Now, that I agree may well be the case

[Manfred]

Thanks for all answers!

I will try dd_rescue and after, if necessary, I will try to apply the WD Slow Responding Fix.

I will post my results.

Have a nice day.