Is Imaging the same as cloning ? Is R-Studio good for imagin

[Matiw]

Dear Forumers,

Is Imaging the same as cloning ? Is R-Studio good for imagining a drive ?

Thanks for your usual expert advises.

[labtech]

It depends on several factors.
To name at least two quickly: drive health and type of output you want.

[DR-Kiev]

Dear Forumers,
Is R-Studio good for imagining a drive ?

It is not . Because of two factors:
1)It can't do backward imaging
2) It is stucks on badblocks.

[Corsari]

Search on HDDGURU downloads, and you'll find a nice imaging and cloning tool

HDDRawCopy

By the way, BEAR in MIND what follow:

BEFORE TO DO ANY ACTION with one drive that manifested problems/troubles/issues, YOU MUST check its S.M.A.R.T. values <-- this is called brief diagnose

If in the sectors section (reallocated, pending, etc) are reported some decreases, your drive will be exposed to serious risks if imaged via software/BIOS (in few words: if imaged with a standard PC)

If data on the disk are valuable important critical, you better think about forward the drive to one data recovery company, there the drive will be imaged through devices and not through softwares. This is a must, because imaging with software will hang so many times degrading more and more your drive, up to making it unrecoverable at all.

While forwarding it to one DR company will prevent further damages to the drive and the better and best imaging process as possible.

As example, here we provide that service and we charge for it only allowing to save a lot of money.

[labtech]

As example, here we provide that service and we charge for it only allowing to save a lot of money.

Let me get this clear.

You are saying that the cost charged for this service will be of only imaging the drive to a another healthy drive?
Which would mean that data extraction is not part of the service. So, once the imaging is complete, the customer is on its own to figure out the extraction process?

You do not provide any information on what that step will be like?