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 Post subject: Strange one - hitachi HTS 160GB
PostPosted: January 27th, 2008, 18:12 
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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????


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Duncan


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 Post subject: Re: Strange one - hitachi HTS 160GB
PostPosted: January 27th, 2008, 19:06 
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Strange one - hitachi HTS 160GB
PostPosted: January 30th, 2008, 15:53 
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I am also confident that it is a bad head.

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