What's the best way to create a HDD disk image

hradford5 · Jan 12, 2015

I have a SATA HDD that's failing. After several attempts, my USB adapter was able to recognize it. I'd like to create a disk image, so that I can clone it when my new drive arrives. What's the best procedure to accomplish this?

USAFRet · Jan 12, 2015

Imaging an already failing drive may lead to less than optimal results

But CloneZilla, DriveimageXML. Macrium Reflect....all can create an image of that.

hradford5 · Jan 13, 2015

USAFRet :

Thanks, I'll give CloneZilla a try.
I know it might not work, but if it does, it'll save a good bit of time reloading the OS & software.

fzabkar · Jan 13, 2015

Ddrescue is recommended by data recovery professionals. You can run it from a Ubuntu Rescue Remix CD. It's not the most user friendly solution, but it has numerous features that are designed to work around bad sectors. It also keeps a log so that it can resume after an interruption.

keithmoisan · Jan 13, 2015

It is possible that the hard drive has bad sectors, so you can secotrs to a healthy hard drive using WinHex or partitionguru, so that you can skip bad sectors and copy sectors that have files. http://www.eassos.com/partitionguru.php

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