Cloning disk by sector copy

[gnikolic]

No one told you that your drive heads are going to die (if not died at all) and hdd regenerator is likely a hdd killer.
At this point you probably have nothing to do anymore, and assuming you don't want to spend a dime neither in solutions neither on giving to a pro (that use HW cloning instead of software, disabling relocation and other relevant things, but requires HW equipment), you're completely on a dead end. Live without that drive / forget it. Or buy a HW cloning equipment... ooooops.... it's not for free.

Yes. I known that isnt free...

Thnax.

[dick]

Media Tools stuck in reading first faulty sector. Is there any way to configure Media tools to skip bad sector(s)? I didnt see anything to configure...

It's explained clearly enough if you read the manual from Prosoft.

Anyway you could attempt to do a reverse clone. Again read the manual.

If you don't want to use free Linux tools then there is Also there is a great little by sector cloning utility called copyr.dma and even better its legal FREEWARE! Oh and it will be on that Hirens disk.
If you decide to try it you need a 2nd destination drive to clone to and you have to use pata ide interfaces for both source and destination.

If none of this works then Blackst is right, if you still want your data you will have to start digging in to your pockets.

[gnikolic]

Hi all.

A little question.
Source drive is 120GB Maxtor SATA; DiamondMax Plus9.

Can this drive cloned on 120GB ATA hard-drive; DiamondMax Plus9?

It is same capacity, but dont known is this possibly.

Thanx in advice.
Gnikolic.

[wiseleo]

Yes.

[gnikolic]

Yes.

Thanx.

[gnikolic]

Hello all!

With Your help, I recovered allmoust 100% usefull and important data from bad sectors hard drive. It should be very easy to give 200E, but it is very expensive here in Belgrade.

I used HDDRegenerator for recovering bad sectors, despite advicement of HDD gurus. The bad hard drive had allmoust 2000 bad sectors. It takes me a lot of time to fix it. After cloning to another drive, I just copyed important files to new hard drive. To noticed something. I used very amateur equepment, but I dont have any other choice.

Thanx all.
HDD gurus, You are the gurus!

Gnikolic.

[drc]

for future reference you might as well image first instead of running hd regenerator. the regenerator isn't going to help you get any additional data back and it has a high probability of damaging the hard drive beyond simple recovery.

[thatdellguy]

HDDRegerator, oh lord! You’re very very lucky the whole scanning process didn't ruin the drive. Professionals don't use HDDRegenerator and would not recommend it for the simple fact that it writes data back to the failing drive. This is a huge NO NO in data recovery. The free CopyR program also skips bad sectors. I would go out and buy a lottery ticket if I were you.

[gnikolic]

Yes I understand what are you telling me.

Thanx for advice.

[pninja]

Would you please forget about Ghost? If you have access to Media Tools, that's a professional tool designed to image drives that may not be healthy. Ghost will fail. Period.

Thanx without period.

Ok. Have Media Tools on Hirens Boot CD. Check it and it is registreted. Just checked how to do in virtual machine with two virtual drives.

Will do this evening and see the situationo.

Thanx in advice.

Media Tools stuck in reading first faulty sector. Is there any way to configure Media tools to skip bad sector(s)? I didnt see anything to configure...

Thanx in advice.

Just push CTRL+S at cloning menu and change Retry Value from 32 to 0.

Pninja