don't mount the clone, the OS will probably screw it up and not be able to see the whole file system if it is corrupted or missing some parts.
Use a logical recovery sw and save files to a different drive of course (which is obvious if the source is not mounted )
DMDE seems to be also able to do imaging with some error handling btw.
It might be more comfortable to use GUI version of the progs, but make absolutely sure that the OS doesn't automatically mount any non-system disks.
What i found on ubuntu is that it does not actually mount the disk until the user clicks open. So you have a chance to run cloning sw or the disk editor if you can resist the temptation of clicking on the disk icon

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But am I ready to start the cloning process?!?!

yep.

after attaching it to linux, do a

where hdx is the device name for that disk
to find out the device name you can use lsblk:


post the result for hdparm -i

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I'm going to clone it tomorrow and then try and decipher that XD

Thank you so much pepe

After a few hours of trying to get write access to the destination drive, I finally have a drive image in progress - using HDDSuperClone.

I'll let you know when it's done, though I'm not sure what to do next as I have no idea what software falls into the "logical recovery sw" category.

Here's where I'm at, images are in order;





Before you ask, these are indeed photos of screenshots. I didn't want to shut down the lived due to all of the stuffing around I did with getting the folder writeable.

These screenshots are within seconds of each other, so I'm not sure about the vastly different runtimes.

The Host IO error actually popped up twice but there was nothing different about the message.

I'm taking a break from it for the rest of today, as It's stressing me so much.

When I used HDDSuperClone, I simply set up the required steps, project, source and destination targets then clicked connect followed by start. I did see it slow down a few times before turning the screen off, but came back to this some time later.

Please ignore the creative directory names lol

I don't seem to be able to edit my posts yet, but just an update.

I forgot that being able to resume a clone was a feature, so I'm back to cloning right now.

Few hours wasted there but what can you do.

Will report back when it's actually completed.

It does seem I need to restart between attempts as the drive "disappears" when these errors occur, but better than nothing.

So this is going to take at least a few more days to a week at best.

I just wanted to say that if you don't hear from me until the new year, Thank you for all of the assistance so far and I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season

not sure why it goes 'offline' do you have the terminal still connected?
the last messages might shed some light on the problem...

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I don't, as I'm using the same computer to do the image.

It has almost completed phase 1.

I think I'm at a point where I cannot progress any further, I'm looking into it still but I'll post again tomorrow or soon with a photo.

Here's where I'm at;

The drive is becoming harder to detect, and today when I went to select it it just timed out after a little while.

I'm having a break from it for now as I'm getting sick of having to restart , plug/unplug etc.

Sorry it's blurry, I took it quickly.

You appear to have managed to get 99.99% of the drive and you're on phase 4.The patient also appears to have died or is dying on the table but you're pretty much finished now anyway. Well done.

The paranoid amongst us would probably now make a copy from your clone which shouldn't take more than a few hours as it should be in perfect health.

Once you have this I'd be tempted to see if the clone of the clone would mount (read only) if there has been no damage to the file system you may get away with it and you can just copy for files. If that doesn't work you'll need some file recovery software - r-studio, ufs-explorer or DMDE .

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When you say a copy, do you literally just mean make a copy of the image?

Also at this point in time, I have literally no idea what program to use to mount the image.

If it's an image file then yes that would work - it's just another safety net in case you make a mess of the image you have made. Ideally you want to always have 2 copies of the data as the patient is now giving up the ghost you're back down to 1, not a necessity but accidents happen.

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Could you explain the 99.99% to me please?

Just cause there's so many skips I assumed that the percentage should technically be smaller?

Also Pepe said not to mount it?

Across the entire drive you've copied all but 140Mb. If you have a look at your log file in the viewer it will give you the physical location of those blocks. Skips in the later passes are based on the read speed and skips just a couple of mb a time.

Preserving a copy of the data is important and depending on where the 140Mb is you may not be able to mount the copy. Mounting a copy of your copy wont do any harm and may well save the need for you to purchase data recovery software. It's not what we do as professionals but we already have the software.

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Ok.

Thank you for the replies, I do appreciate it

I'm about to go to sleep but I'll try moving forward asap.

Don't the skips equal about 1.6GB?