Clone/Image Hard Drive with bad sectors

[vr6rafal]

If any one has a recommendation of a program to use, to clone or image a hard drive that has multiple bad sectors.

I've tried getdataback it identifies over 100000 files but shows nothing once it finishes.

I also tried Acronis True Image but it won't go due to bad sectors and it freezes my rig.

Any suggestions on software that can be used to clone drive with bad sectors so I can recover the files!

THANK YOU!!

 

[iisjman07]

We've always liked Roadkil's RawCopy. It's very simple to use, robust, and has 'has a built in data recovery function which will attempt to recover data from bad sectors to ensure all the available data is restored from the drive'


http://roadkil.net/program.php/P22/Raw%20Copy

EDIT: and it's free and portable

 

[onetech4all]

Re:

Great advice! Thanks!

 

[MobileTechie]

Paragon will ignore errors and produce images of various types. However you do have to wait for the first error to show up and then tell it to ignore all future errors.

 

[trapped]

I have found that the image function of Active@ File Recovery is good for making a copy of a drive with bad sectors.

 

[danrcf]

spinrite its a good one to try.

 

[vr6rafal]

awesome, thanks! Will give them a try!

 

[MobileTechie]

spinrite its a good one to try.

Spinrite doesn't even take images and it's most definitely not a good thing to run on a drive before you've got an image

 

[shamrin]

I can give you some counter examples; don't bother with ShadowProtect Desktop, it's a great program but very sensitive to disk problems. Also, I like Macrium imaging a lot but it is sensitive to disk errors as well. I have had luck with the latter after running a Chkdsk /r and/or /B but it would be nice to not have to stress an already problematic disk like that before you even get an image. Will have to give Paragon another look.

Please report back your results.