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ytcracker

Post subject: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 9th, 2023, 15:10

Joined: January 23rd, 2022, 13:20
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I'm trying to image a 1 TB external USB hard drive with dd on WSL because it wasn't connecting to Windows properly anymore and I would like to recover data from it. The command I use is: sudo dd if=/dev/sdd of=/mnt/d/dd/expansion.dd bs=64k status=progress. When it starts imaging the file, it is really fast. Then, after around 73 GB copied in less than an hour, it slows down so much that it takes almost an hour to copy one GB. I can see the difference when the imaging is at the beginning, the blue LED on the drive is blinking continuously. When it reaches around 73 GB, the light stops blinking so fast and it only blinks every few seconds on a regular interval. It looks like the drive is barely communicating with my pc anymore. I also noticed that when the blue light blinks again, at this moment I can see a few bytes being imaged with dd.

This does not only occur with dd. I observed this behavior with every forensic tool I tried like Autopsy, FTK imager, ... The beginning goes fast and then, after some point, and it looks like it's always around 73 GB, it stops working and only copies data from time to time at a regular interval.

What is going wrong with the drive? And how can I speed up the imaging process so that it doesn't take months to finish?

I ran smartctl on it. I can't access the results right now because the drive is locked by dd, but I got a CurrentPendingSector count higher than 0, although the reallocated sector count was 0.

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 9th, 2023, 15:50

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 15526
Location: Australia

It would be much better to use HDDSuperClone. Its author provides a GUI and a Live CD.

HDDSuperClone understands how to work with bad heads or bad media. It clones the easy sectors on the first pass and then attempts to clone the more difficult sectors on subsequent passes.

A Windows based tool is inappropriate for this task because it interferes with error recovery.

Also, connecting the drive to a SATA port would be preferable, if at all possible.

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ytcracker

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 9th, 2023, 17:19

Joined: January 23rd, 2022, 13:20
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fzabkar wrote:

Thank you, I will try. Is it fine if I run HDDSuperClone from a Linux VM? By the way, I tried gddrescue and I had the same kind of problems.

Just curious, why does connecting to SATA help, I'm a HDD noob?

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ytcracker

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 9th, 2023, 17:24

Joined: January 23rd, 2022, 13:20
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Spildit wrote:

Also can you provide more data about your drive like full model and S.M.A.R.T. report ? On some drives there are some firmware "tricks" that can be applyed to speed up the cloning process...

I will provide the SMART report tomorrow. Could you recommend a good command line to do that ? I tried smartmontools on Windows but I was not sure which command line options to use.

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 9th, 2023, 17:35

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
Posts: 15526
Location: Australia

ytcracker wrote:

I will provide the SMART report tomorrow. Could you recommend a good command line to do that ?

GSmartControl and CrystalDiskInfo are two popular tools.

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ytcracker

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 3:22

Joined: January 23rd, 2022, 13:20
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Location: Belgium

Spildit wrote:

Also can you provide more data about your drive like full model and S.M.A.R.T. report ? On some drives there are some firmware "tricks" that can be applyed to speed up the cloning process...

Model : ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
Firmware : 2AR20003

SMART report:

Code:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.14 (C) 2008-2022 hiyohiyo
                                Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Date : 2023/03/10 8:18:52

-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
 + USB Attached SCSI (UAS) Mass Storage Device [SCSI]
   - Seagate Expansion SCSI Disk Device
 - Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller [SCSI]

-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
 (01) ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB : 1000,2 GB [2/3/0, sa1]

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (01) ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Model : ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
        Firmware : 2AR20003
   Serial Number : S2ZPJ9CDA02971
       Disk Size : 1000,2 GB (8,4/137,4/1000,2/1000,2)
     Buffer Size : 16384 KB
     Queue Depth : 32
    # of Sectors : 1953525168
   Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM
       Interface : UASP (Serial ATA)
   Major Version : ATA8-ACS
   Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 6
   Transfer Mode : SATA/300 | SATA/300
  Power On Hours : 1594 hours
  Power On Count : 832 count
     Temperature : 23 C (73 F)
   Health Status : Caution
        Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, NCQ, GPL
       APM Level : 0080h [OFF]
       AAM Level : FE00h [OFF]
    Drive Letter : E:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 _96 _96 _51 00000003CD45 Read Error Rate
02 252 252 __0 000000000000 Throughput Performance
03 _86 _86 _25 00000000116C Spin-Up Time
04 _99 _99 __0 00000000051A Start/Stop Count
05 252 252 _10 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 252 252 _51 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
08 252 252 _15 000000000000 Seek Time Performance
09 100 100 __0 00000000063A Power-On Hours
0A 252 252 _51 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0B 100 100 __0 00000000000C Recalibration Retries
0C 100 100 __0 000000000340 Power Cycle Count
BF 100 100 __0 000000000005 G-Sense Error Rate
C0 252 252 __0 000000000000 Power-off Retract Count
C2 _64 _64 __0 003A000D0017 Temperature
C3 100 100 __0 000000000000 Hardware ECC recovered
C4 252 252 __0 000000000000 Reallocation Event Count
C5 _38 _38 __0 00000000282E Current Pending Sector Count
C6 252 252 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 100 100 __0 000000000004 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
C8 100 100 __0 00000000001A Write Error Rate
DF 100 100 __0 00000000000C Load/Unload Retry Count
E1 _99 _99 __0 0000000037C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count

-- IDENTIFY_DEVICE ---------------------------------------------------------
        0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9
000: 0040 3FFF C837 0010 0000 0000 003F 0000 0000 0000
010: 5332 5A50 4A39 4344 4130 3239 3731 2020 2020 2020
020: 0000 8000 0004 3241 5232 3030 3033 5354 3130 3030
030: 4C4D 3032 3420 484E 2D4D 3130 314D 4242 2020 2020
040: 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 8010 4000 2F00
050: 4000 0200 0200 0007 3FFF 0010 003F FC10 00FB 0000
060: FFFF 0FFF 0000 0407 0003 0078 0078 0078 0078 0000
070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 001F 1D06 0004 004C 0040
080: 01FF 0028 746B 7F69 6123 7469 BC41 6123 007F 006B
090: 006B 0080 FFFE 0000 FE00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
100: 6DB0 7470 0000 0000 0000 0000 6003 0000 5000 4CF2
110: 0B51 1F41 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 401C
120: 401C 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0021 0000
130: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
140: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
150: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0003 0000
170: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
180: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
190: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
200: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 003F 0000 0000 4000
210: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1518 0000 0000
220: 0000 0000 103F 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
230: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0400 0000 0000 0000 0000
240: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
250: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 D5A5

-- SMART_READ_DATA ---------------------------------------------------------
     +0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +A +B +C +D +E +F
000: 10 00 01 2F 00 60 60 45 CD 03 00 00 00 00 02 26
010: 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 23 00 56 56 6C
020: 11 00 00 00 00 00 04 32 00 63 63 1A 05 00 00 00
030: 00 00 05 33 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 2E
040: 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 24 00 FC FC 00
050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 32 00 64 64 3A 06 00 00 00
060: 00 00 0A 32 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 32
070: 00 64 64 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 32 00 64 64 40
080: 03 00 00 00 00 00 BF 22 00 64 64 05 00 00 00 00
090: 00 00 C0 22 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C2 02
0A0: 00 40 40 17 00 0D 00 3A 00 00 C3 3A 00 64 64 00
0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C4 32 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00
0C0: 00 00 C5 32 00 26 26 2E 28 00 00 00 00 00 C6 30
0D0: 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C7 36 00 64 64 04
0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C8 2A 00 64 64 1A 00 00 00 00
0F0: 00 00 DF 32 00 64 64 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 E1 32
100: 00 63 63 C1 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 44 34 00 5B
170: 03 00 01 00 02 DF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 87

-- SMART_READ_THRESHOLD ----------------------------------------------------
     +0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +A +B +C +D +E +F
000: 10 00 01 33 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 19 00 00 00 00
020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
030: 00 00 05 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 33
040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 0F 00 00 00 00
050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
060: 00 00 0A 33 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 00
070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00
080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 BF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
090: 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C2 00
0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C3 00 00 00 00 00
0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0C0: 00 00 C5 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C6 00
0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C7 00 00 00 00 00
0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0F0: 00 00 DF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E1 00
100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3B

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ytcracker

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 7:17

Joined: January 23rd, 2022, 13:20
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Location: Belgium

fzabkar wrote:

I ran HDDSuperClone from the HDDLive CD. I get the same kind of errors as with other tools, it copies tens of GBs and then it stops.

Clone settings
https://ibb.co/LC4LN3V

Errors after cloning 78.56 GB
https://ibb.co/HDBFKrY
https://ibb.co/rcy5HVw
https://ibb.co/GVSHbC9

Then, I tried changing the input offset and increase the address a little bit to start the cloning again from around 83 GB.
https://ibb.co/yp03gZ6

It started cloning again really fast and then stopped again with the same errors at 123 GB.
https://ibb.co/nPWf529

Can anyone tell me, based on these results and errors, what is wrong with the drive (is it physical or only bad sectors?), and which tool I can use to image the drive and recover its data?

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ytcracker

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 8:04

Joined: January 23rd, 2022, 13:20
Posts: 14
Location: Belgium

ytcracker wrote:

Spildit wrote:

Also can you provide more data about your drive like full model and S.M.A.R.T. report ? On some drives there are some firmware "tricks" that can be applyed to speed up the cloning process...

Model : ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
Firmware : 2AR20003

SMART report:

Code:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.14 (C) 2008-2022 hiyohiyo
                                Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Date : 2023/03/10 8:18:52

-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
 + USB Attached SCSI (UAS) Mass Storage Device [SCSI]
   - Seagate Expansion SCSI Disk Device
 - Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller [SCSI]

-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
 (01) ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB : 1000,2 GB [2/3/0, sa1]

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (01) ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Model : ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
        Firmware : 2AR20003
   Serial Number : S2ZPJ9CDA02971
       Disk Size : 1000,2 GB (8,4/137,4/1000,2/1000,2)
     Buffer Size : 16384 KB
     Queue Depth : 32
    # of Sectors : 1953525168
   Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM
       Interface : UASP (Serial ATA)
   Major Version : ATA8-ACS
   Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 6
   Transfer Mode : SATA/300 | SATA/300
  Power On Hours : 1594 hours
  Power On Count : 832 count
     Temperature : 23 C (73 F)
   Health Status : Caution
        Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, NCQ, GPL
       APM Level : 0080h [OFF]
       AAM Level : FE00h [OFF]
    Drive Letter : E:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 _96 _96 _51 00000003CD45 Read Error Rate
02 252 252 __0 000000000000 Throughput Performance
03 _86 _86 _25 00000000116C Spin-Up Time
04 _99 _99 __0 00000000051A Start/Stop Count
05 252 252 _10 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 252 252 _51 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
08 252 252 _15 000000000000 Seek Time Performance
09 100 100 __0 00000000063A Power-On Hours
0A 252 252 _51 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0B 100 100 __0 00000000000C Recalibration Retries
0C 100 100 __0 000000000340 Power Cycle Count
BF 100 100 __0 000000000005 G-Sense Error Rate
C0 252 252 __0 000000000000 Power-off Retract Count
C2 _64 _64 __0 003A000D0017 Temperature
C3 100 100 __0 000000000000 Hardware ECC recovered
C4 252 252 __0 000000000000 Reallocation Event Count
C5 _38 _38 __0 00000000282E Current Pending Sector Count
C6 252 252 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 100 100 __0 000000000004 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
C8 100 100 __0 00000000001A Write Error Rate
DF 100 100 __0 00000000000C Load/Unload Retry Count
E1 _99 _99 __0 0000000037C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count

-- IDENTIFY_DEVICE ---------------------------------------------------------
        0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9
000: 0040 3FFF C837 0010 0000 0000 003F 0000 0000 0000
010: 5332 5A50 4A39 4344 4130 3239 3731 2020 2020 2020
020: 0000 8000 0004 3241 5232 3030 3033 5354 3130 3030
030: 4C4D 3032 3420 484E 2D4D 3130 314D 4242 2020 2020
040: 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 8010 4000 2F00
050: 4000 0200 0200 0007 3FFF 0010 003F FC10 00FB 0000
060: FFFF 0FFF 0000 0407 0003 0078 0078 0078 0078 0000
070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 001F 1D06 0004 004C 0040
080: 01FF 0028 746B 7F69 6123 7469 BC41 6123 007F 006B
090: 006B 0080 FFFE 0000 FE00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
100: 6DB0 7470 0000 0000 0000 0000 6003 0000 5000 4CF2
110: 0B51 1F41 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 401C
120: 401C 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0021 0000
130: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
140: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
150: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0003 0000
170: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
180: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
190: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
200: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 003F 0000 0000 4000
210: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1518 0000 0000
220: 0000 0000 103F 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
230: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0400 0000 0000 0000 0000
240: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
250: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 D5A5

-- SMART_READ_DATA ---------------------------------------------------------
     +0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +A +B +C +D +E +F
000: 10 00 01 2F 00 60 60 45 CD 03 00 00 00 00 02 26
010: 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 23 00 56 56 6C
020: 11 00 00 00 00 00 04 32 00 63 63 1A 05 00 00 00
030: 00 00 05 33 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 2E
040: 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 24 00 FC FC 00
050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 32 00 64 64 3A 06 00 00 00
060: 00 00 0A 32 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 32
070: 00 64 64 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 32 00 64 64 40
080: 03 00 00 00 00 00 BF 22 00 64 64 05 00 00 00 00
090: 00 00 C0 22 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C2 02
0A0: 00 40 40 17 00 0D 00 3A 00 00 C3 3A 00 64 64 00
0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C4 32 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00
0C0: 00 00 C5 32 00 26 26 2E 28 00 00 00 00 00 C6 30
0D0: 00 FC FC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C7 36 00 64 64 04
0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C8 2A 00 64 64 1A 00 00 00 00
0F0: 00 00 DF 32 00 64 64 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 E1 32
100: 00 63 63 C1 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 44 34 00 5B
170: 03 00 01 00 02 DF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 87

-- SMART_READ_THRESHOLD ----------------------------------------------------
     +0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +A +B +C +D +E +F
000: 10 00 01 33 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 19 00 00 00 00
020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
030: 00 00 05 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 33
040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 0F 00 00 00 00
050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
060: 00 00 0A 33 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B 00
070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00
080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 BF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
090: 00 00 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C2 00
0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C3 00 00 00 00 00
0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0C0: 00 00 C5 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C6 00
0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C7 00 00 00 00 00
0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0F0: 00 00 DF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E1 00
100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3B

The firmware I provided before I think is wrong. In SeaTools, the firmware is 0636.

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Lardman

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 8:08

Joined: November 7th, 2020, 5:31
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ytcracker wrote:

Can anyone tell me, based on these results and errors, what is wrong with the drive (is it physical or only bad sectors?), and which tool I can use to image the drive and recover its data?

Are you cloning from a virtual machine ? Can you post the log file.

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ytcracker

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 8:29

Joined: January 23rd, 2022, 13:20
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Location: Belgium

Lardman wrote:

ytcracker wrote:

Can anyone tell me, based on these results and errors, what is wrong with the drive (is it physical or only bad sectors?), and which tool I can use to image the drive and recover its data?

Are you cloning from a virtual machine ? Can you post the log file.

I can't find the log file anymore. No, I cloned from a HDDLive USB key, Xubuntu.

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Lardman

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 8:40

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It's timing out and because it's usb it can't be repowered as it would be normally. At a guess it's busy doing background processes, you really need an external relay to repower the drive after a couple of timeouts. USB connectivity is very poor for recovery work.

Try switching all the phases off but phase 1 and work in reverse to sandwich the damaged area.

The other thing you can try is the virtual driver hooked into dmde to do targeted recover via the file system rather than a full clone.

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ytcracker

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 8:45

Joined: January 23rd, 2022, 13:20
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Lardman wrote:

Thanks, so if use SATA I shouldn't have this issue ?

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Lardman

Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 8:56

Joined: November 7th, 2020, 5:31
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ytcracker wrote:

Thanks, so if use SATA I shouldn't have this issue ?

You have a hardware problem - nothing is going to "fix" it. hddsuperclone will be able to handle the processing of the error that problem is going to create more effectively on sata. You may still need a relay to repower the drive if it locks up.

There are plenty of things to try to maximise recovery, start location, direction, timeouts, virtual driver etc, these types of tools are not point and click solutions to cloning a failing drive, you need to make changes based on how the drive is performing.

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Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 9:08

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Lardman wrote:

Can I just open an external USB drive and put it in Desktop with SATA. Or is there a risk of damaging the drive ?

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Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 9:21

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Assuming you're referring to the external usb enclosure, yes it's fine to remove the hard drive form them. There are plenty of youtube videos of external drive teardowns but most just require some gentle encouragement with a spudger.

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Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 17:34

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Spildit wrote:

If the drive still doesn't clone with proper speed there is also another trick that you can try on your specific drive when you have it plugged by SATA. It requires a firmware tool that is freely available now thanks to @fzabkar and changing some parameters like insitu / auto reasign, etc to see if the drive clones faster....

Thank you for your advice. I want to try connecting the drive to SATA. Someone mentioned that this could be the USB drive losing power, but when it stops cloning I still see the blue LED on the light, so I wonder if it is really a power loss. Could you link to the firmware tool you mentioned ? Do you recommend trying this before connecting the drive via SATA?

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Post subject: Re: Using dd on WSL to image my external USB drive is slow

Posted: March 10th, 2023, 19:06

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http://files.hddguru.com/download/Software/SHTR/

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