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Hey guys, so yesterday i got the error that my hardrive failed.
I knew this day would come, the hardrive is 5 years old.
I was wondering if there was a way of cloning everything in that hardrive couting windows 7 to my other hardrive that i have which i use to put games files
I have more than enough space on the other hardrive, and i am wondering of how do i clone the hardrive into another, and that if i need a completely clean hardrive to put it into.
 
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Phillip Corcoran

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You cannot clone a failed hard drive, indeed you cannot do anything with a failed hard drive other than dump it in the nearest trash bin.

Unless you have a (very) fat wallet to pay a data recovery specialist, but even they won't be able to clone it. They'll just be able to rescue your data (or at least some of it) if you didn't back it up.

You should have backed up the drive as a disk image whilst it was healthy.
 
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The hardrive is still fine, i just got the error and rushed to try to save my files
I made an image in my second hardrive, but the problem now is that
whenever i go to the sytem repair and all that and go to the image restore and follow all the steps
It then gives me an error 0x80042414 whenever i click finish and it starts
Was i supposed to buy 2 hardrives and then put the image on one and have one empty for the image to be recovered in?
Or can the image be recovered in the save hardrive it is saved it (Note: this hardrive only has the image in it)
 
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