Clonezilla ate my hard drive copy attempt

[loninappleton]

After I had a problem with Raw Copy Tool not finding a 'locked' hd I used a tool called Clonezilla from Sourceforge which I had used previous days before on a different job.

This program has an option I misinterpreted or read wrong at set up which
messed with bootup. I thought it was an MBR refresh for the boot sector.

The result was neither the source nor the target drive can be read and Win 7
just says "a disk read error occurred, press control alt del."

Seagate Seatools for the 500 Gb does not see it at all from it's work cd.

But if this HD is used as the slave, my working Win7 setup can see the data files
in Explorer or whatever opens for that.

The big question is there's a large shared file from my home network that I do not see listed as "Public" on the home network. That's the data I'd like to retrieve and just wipe this mess from Clonezilla.

I will copy out the option name if it helps from 'zilla:

That attempt failed. CZ does not see the problem drive far enough to issue the
command request.

That's all I have. There may be no choice but to call it quits and re-low level the HD
as a scrub.


[Also can my profile be set to automatically check the box "Notify me when a reply is posted" ?] I can't see it in 'manage subscriptions'

[loninappleton]

More info on this:

I ran a 2014 edition of Acronis True Image and it sees both drives and shows different
data amounts for each. But both are listed as C:.

I loaded Acronis because I recalled that it had some MBR refresh routine in it. But I think the bootrecord cannot be retrieved from the HD.