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
April 19th, 2020, 12:55
I have an extern HDD that is 4TB and I shall copy RAW data from it. In the Disk Management Console it's reported corectly as 3726,01GB.
But in the HDD RAW COPY TOOL 1.10 it says that it's only 500,01GB.
How come and what to do to make it show actual size?
April 19th, 2020, 17:50
Some external enclosures are configured with a sector size of 4096 bytes. I suspect that the tool incorrectly assumes a sector size of 512 bytes, causing it to mistakenly calculate the capacity as 4TB / 8 = 500GB.
April 19th, 2020, 17:55
fzabkar wrote:Some external enclosures are configured with a sector size of 4096 bytes. I suspect that the tool incorrectly assumes a sector size of 512 bytes, causing it to mistakenly calculate the capacity as 4TB / 8 = 500GB.
Does this affect something when I copy the RAW data from the disk?
April 19th, 2020, 18:05
I wouldn't use this tool for your backups. That said, I don't know what the result would be.
April 19th, 2020, 18:17
fzabkar wrote:I wouldn't use this tool for your backups. That said, I don't know what the result would be.
Can you recommend any other free software that can backup raw data?
April 20th, 2020, 0:43
Seagate and WD both provide OEM versions of Acronis True Image. Seagate calls it DiscWizard.
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