Best Imaging Tool For Failing Disk?

[Hambone]

Hi,

I have a WD Black 2TB drive that's failing and has loads of bad sectors. I've tried cloning the disk to another 2TB disk with Ghost 11.5 with the -fro switch to continue even with bad blocks but it's gets to 50% and pretty much grinds to a halt on this one area of the disk. I'm assuming that area of the disk is really bad because Ghost got past other bad areas and kept going (but it took awhile). It's been going very slow on this area for 2 days. I'm not sure if I'm right, but it seems like Ghost is trying to read the bad blocks rather than ignore them. This is all in Ghost boot mode.

At this point I just want to get back as much data as possible from this drive, that is just about full. So my question is what disk imaging (or copying) tool can clone (or copy file level data) a HDD but completely ignore and skip bad sectors and move on to the next readable area of the disk?

The disk is data files only. I've booted a PC with the bad drive using Hiren's BootCD to transfer some files to another disk and so far it hasn't encountered any problems but I've avoided those dirs Ghost was having a problem with, at least to the 50% it got up to. Don't know what other problems lie after that...

Soooo....anyone have some suggestions for me?

Thanks for the help!!

[labtech]

If the data is important, then take it to a reputable data recovery company.

If you do not care taking further risk in possible losing your data, then you can check media tools on the Hiren's boot cd under recovery tools. The tool allows to image in reverse mode as well and has a configuration for skipping a number of sectors set.

Recommend that you practice on another set of drives to understand how the tool works.

[buster80]

If cost is an issue but time is not then find someone with a DDI/3k and ask them to run it overnight when they have time for a lesser cost.

In saying that it may be a bad head

run it by a pro before you murder it

Andy

[laptokowiec]

Try DMDE or HDClone (both allow cloning for free)