I would like to clone a clicking drive that is slowly failing, (sorry for being so vague, but it can read some sectors) anyway, would like to buy something that would clone and ignore (only 1 retry or none) on bad sector errors, i am considering deepspar disk imager or data compass or what do you suggest? i need something simple and easy to use, even though i am a qualified electronic engineer, and definitely not an DR expert, i would like to avoid extra stress that i sometimes have no patience for, but many times spend days on projects that yeild very little results, anyway, thank you for your genuine replies.

Hi,

You could try R-studio or copyr which are software based only and much cheaper.
Copyr has the advantage you can add a power-supply switch, so the software can switch the drive on and off if neccessary (and with bad drives, that is often needed)
Deepspar will cost you 3000$, so only if you have to clone harddisks very often.

Best regards,

Dobre

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Thanks for your reply and suggestion Dobre, i have tried copyr.dma in the past with little success (very slow) the rate it was going at ...would take over a month, maybe I was doing something wrong, have you had success? anyway, will keep it mind, studio -r i have not tried and will give that a go...i believe they have a trial version... will set up an experiment here...i have contacted both Salvation & DeepSpar and am leaning towards DeepSpar disk imager if i go ahead, and you are right it is around 3k....data compass is also around same cost

I have used copyr only once in the past. I can't remember if i had great success with it or not. Since i have now deepspar, that's my preferred tool for cloning
Ow, and i forgot to say, Studio-r cannot clone directly to another drive; you'll need to make an image file and then copy that one back to another good drive.

Dobre

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I have used copyr called HDD Duplicator full version and at some cases, its more better than DE well DE PCI version , i dont got UDMA until now but we are planning on the next year , where´s DE hangs trying to got the sectors from bad media at some models HDD Dup was able to got sectors and use UDMA access .

Regards

thanks beto, will definitely investigate, thank you so much for your suggestion, I just spoke with Alexey, and there is a new updated release of HD duplicator due sometime in September, this full version looks very promising

wow, cool, i cant contact with alexey until now i hope arrived on the next month the update on my inbox

Regards

I'm hoping too! I've been very impressed with HD Duplicator's potential, but it's motherboard compatibility needs some work, and Alexy has been missing.

One thing I liked was that, while you could buy a power-switching device, schematics are included, and you could make your own if you wanted. They were only $100, but I like the option of making my own.

Hy rchadwick, the last version alexey told support´s SCSI, but i had tried without sucess, did u tried??

I never tried SCSI with it. I forget why, but something told me it likely wasn't going to work. I think something about the description led me to think it was untested.

Yes it works. I used it some times.
Anyway the guy is back. He promises a new version in september. See www.copyrsoft.com
I have his ICQ contact and sometimes he is active there.
Cheers