Strange one - hitachi HTS 160GB

[Odiferous]

IDs just fine in BIOS, or when connected via USB.

However, when cloning (X-Ways Forensics) it quickly clones about 100,000 sectors - and then grinds to a halt.

This is the same whether I clone at the beginning, middle or end of disk; the first 100K sectors take seconds, and then - nothing (well, about 1MB per 2 hours.)

Have also tried cloing on a Sonix cloner - managed 4% clone in 48 hours...

I recall having had this problem a few times a couple of years ago, but cannot remember what I did to repair it.

Any ideas????


Thanks

Duncan

[jono-ats]

Sounds like head #1 is bad. if you have a PC3000 UDMA, you can image around it and get 75% of the data. Or else replace the heads for full recovery.

Jon

[Dmitry Postrigan]

I am also confident that it is a bad head.