Clone the hard drive with bad sectors


  1. Posts : 23
    Window 7 Home premuim 64bit
       #1

    Clone the hard drive with bad sectors


    Hi all,


    I need your advice, I am thinking about make an image of my old HDD hard drive to put them on another hard drive, so I could recover my files on another drive. I don't have any problem with accessing the drive, but I am having a problem with accessing my files through on the data recovery program because it have bad sectors and I have lost my files due to computer went crash.


    When I attempted to scan my files through on the data recovery program, it will take hours to scan my files and I don't want to make it worse that would put the stress on the drive and it get died before I attempt to recover my files.


    Do you think it is a good idea if I should make an image of the disk with bad sectors to put them on another disk so I could attempt to recover my files on another drive or do you think if I should send the faulty disk to a professional data recovery company who will do this more easily?


    I hope it will give you an idea with what I am trying to do to save my money without send the drive to a professional data recovery company.


    Any advice would be much appreciated.


    Thanks in advance
    Last edited by chris0147; 03 Jan 2024 at 18:55.
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  2. Posts : 16,119
    7 X64
       #2

    It is sensible to clone the disk and attempt recovery from the clone. Less risk of damaging the original.
    Professional data recovery is not cheap.

    Clonezilla / Discussion /
    Clonezilla live: Cloning disk with bad sector


    -rescue option should skip the bad sectors when creating the clone. That will be easier to attempt recovery from. If any data was actually on the bad sectors, tough luck. If you are lucky most or all of the important stuff will be ok.

    * Boot from clonezilla-live.iso
    1. Choose language - default (en_US.UTF-8)
    2. Don't touch keymap
    3. Start Clonezilla
    4. device-device
    5. Expert
    6. disk_to_local_disk
    7. select source disk (e.g. hdb)
    8. select target disk (e.g. sda)
    9. Here is the screen with available options:
    -g auto
    -e1 auto
    -e2
    -j2
    -r
    -nogui
    -m
    -rescue
    -fsck-src-part
    -o
    -b
    -v
    (Try to scroll up/down if you don't see these all)
    10. Some settings for target partition table
    11. Confirmation screen. You can see the generated command line. For rescue - it contains "-rescue" option.
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  3. Posts : 3,772
    win 8 32 bit
       #3

    Its very dodgy if bad sectors get copied to the new drive you cant undo it
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  4. Posts : 23
    Window 7 Home premuim 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    SIW2 said:
    It is sensible to clone the disk and attempt recovery from the clone. Less risk of damaging the original.
    Professional data recovery is not cheap.

    Clonezilla / Discussion /
    Clonezilla live: Cloning disk with bad sector


    -rescue option should skip the bad sectors when creating the clone. That will be easier to attempt recovery from. If any data was actually on the bad sectors, tough luck. If you are lucky most or all of the important stuff will be ok.

    * Boot from clonezilla-live.iso
    1. Choose language - default (en_US.UTF-8)
    2. Don't touch keymap
    3. Start Clonezilla
    4. device-device
    5. Expert
    6. disk_to_local_disk
    7. select source disk (e.g. hdb)
    8. select target disk (e.g. sda)
    9. Here is the screen with available options:
    -g auto
    -e1 auto
    -e2
    -j2
    -r
    -nogui
    -m
    -rescue
    -fsck-src-part
    -o
    -b
    -v
    (Try to scroll up/down if you don't see these all)
    10. Some settings for target partition table
    11. Confirmation screen. You can see the generated command line. For rescue - it contains "-rescue" option.
    Thanks. If I use clonezilla to clone my bad HDD, can I be able to recover my data as the sectors is bad??

    Will my data go corrupt if I clone the hdd?

    Do you think if I am better off to go to data recovery company to recover my data without corrupt my data than clone on my drive??
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  5. Posts : 16,119
    7 X64
       #5

    It depends how important the data is to you. Ask some recovery companies what the cost would be and try and find out how reliable/successful the company is.
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