but BlackST suggests that we shouldn't worry about Vendor track, it is not importand for data copying.

NO !! I said some stuff is not necessary for the drive to start, not some STUFF.

If you are ready and have started to clone and it is slow you have to leave it and let it go I just finished to clone 1TB Hitachi HDD that was terrible and it took me 19 days to do this one. I had a Toshiba that took me 45 days to do but in all I got all data off the drives and back to the clients.

There is no way to speed up cloning. You repair the problem then you have to allow the drive to clone and read the data off of it you can not force a read from data and regen a translator if you expect to get your data back on this drive. You have to leave to not force DR and allow the broken drive to clone. I know it is not fun to sit around and wait for a drive to clone but on some drive you can not even clone 1 million sectors in 24 hours. It depends on the heads and the degration on the platters and how many sectors are totally bad and have to be read more than once. You have to leave to be patient when it comes to this.

You can try and clone backwards on this one and see if you can read better the end of the drive and work forward. At times I had to clone backwards, then make a major jump in sectors, then clone from middle to certain point then clone from middle to back point. It all depends on the drive and how you can work around these problems. That is what you need to look at when cloning on how you can do this one. Sometime one area is so slow you think it will never finish. At times I try and skip these areas to work around them later on so that I can get the most data off the HDD as possible and go back to the problem area and only work in them. Try this one

If you are ready and have started to clone and it is slow you have to leave it and let it go I just finished to clone 1TB Hitachi HDD that was terrible and it took me 19 days to do this one. I had a Toshiba that took me 45 days to do but in all I got all data off the drives and back to the clients.

There is no way to speed up cloning. You repair the problem then you have to allow the drive to clone and read the data off of it you can not force a read from data and regen a translator if you expect to get your data back on this drive. You have to leave to not force DR and allow the broken drive to clone. I know it is not fun to sit around and wait for a drive to clone but on some drive you can not even clone 1 million sectors in 24 hours. It depends on the heads and the degration on the platters and how many sectors are totally bad and have to be read more than once. You have to leave to be patient when it comes to this.

You can try and clone backwards on this one and see if you can read better the end of the drive and work forward. At times I had to clone backwards, then make a major jump in sectors, then clone from middle to certain point then clone from middle to back point. It all depends on the drive and how you can work around these problems. That is what you need to look at when cloning on how you can do this one. Sometime one area is so slow you think it will never finish. At times I try and skip these areas to work around them later on so that I can get the most data off the HDD as possible and go back to the problem area and only work in them. Try this one

1) fix STUFF 2) check and eventually fix firmware-must at least start decently 3) selfscan. In this order.

Let me guess... The author of this text is "poehere"???

Can you sleep without it?

I have bad Internet connection, lot of lost packets, Googled to some forum, site didn't respond, so readed from cache. It turned to be closed user group, not accessible to the public. I am not going to hack into the forum just to satisfy your curiosity. Sorry pal...

My statement was intended as a joke and to somewhat give a hint of reinforcement in what you are explaining in your post by using somebody else's explanations

Let me guess... The author of this text is "poehere"???