MacBook1137 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Hey guys! I have a failing old IDE HDD. It has many bad sectors. I need to find an application that will clone them while skipping over the bad sectors on the drive. Most apps out there just fail the cloning process due to the fact that there are indeed bad sectors. How can I achieve a cloned disk without the bad sectors on the old disk? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 http://clonezilla.org/ For supported filesystems, only used blocks are cloned, so it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacBook1137 Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 Thank you for the fast response! I will try it tomorrow morning and I'll get back to you to tell you if it works! Thank You! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th3bigguy Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Use FTK imager...its free and you can either dd, e01, or just export he files you need. Accessdata.com. Enjoy and it will run from a USB drive too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdole369 Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Possible to use MHDD to remap the bad sectors too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Most linux distributions have dd, and dd has the conv=noerror option that will make it continue if read errors are encountered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacBook1137 Posted December 29, 2009 Author Share Posted December 29, 2009 Okay, I tried Clonezilla and I was so confused. It didn't work unless I'm doing something wrong. I got really excited when I tried FTK. I created a RAW image of the partition. Then I exported the image to the new drive. The new drive says that there are files on it, but I can't seem them. I tried even searching for hidden files and there are none. What am I doing wrong in FTK? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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