Problems cloning

[Xander]

I've got an XP system with some bad sectors on the disk. It still boots and the event viewer even knows there's issues.

I ran HDDregenerator overnight to try to smooth out any wrinkles. I've done this before and it's helped. It corrected 12 sectors near the start of the drive.

So, I'm trying to clone it over from their 160GB Samsung to a 320GB Maxtor. I've tried Acronis, Easeus, HDClone, and Clonezilla. They all hang around the bad sectors ... even when told to ignore errors and what not.

Now, I can understand if the drive was so trashed it wouldn't boot or be recognized at all but it's a booting disk. Aargh. I'll have to see what other programs I've got in my CD case and dust them off. I don't think I've ever had this much trouble cloning a single drive.

 

[Knightsman]

Try:
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

 

[ATTech]

Try:
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

I've tried Acronis, Easeus, HDClone, and Clonezilla.

Looks like he has.Filler Text

 

[Xander]

I've tried Acronis, Easeus, HDClone, and Clonezilla.

Try:
http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/

Yup.


I'm trying Norton Ghost off of Hiren's. Bad on me but it seems to have actually continued after being told to continue. Hangs were around 10% before, it's now at 25%.

 

[Knightsman]

opps, missed that you had already tried that. Is it super important for the customer to do a clone, or can a data transfer work?

 

[Knightsman]

Yup.


I'm trying Norton Ghost off of Hiren's. Bad on me but it seems to have actually continued after being told to continue. Hangs were around 10% before, it's now at 25%.

Desperate times, call for desperate measures!

 

[Xander]

Back from housecalls. Ghost did the job. I'm rather surprised that the 4 other programs, even when told to overlook errors, kept locking up.

I'm going to run a SFC when I get back as I'm not sure what was in the bad sectors.
Anybody have any tricks up their sleeves on double-checking the completeness of a cloning?

 

[Knightsman]

Which OS? I normally reinstall any service packs, and run sfc/ other than that if it runs good, good deal.

 

[Xander]

It's otherwise up-to-date. They're one of those rare families that actually install updates as they're offered. I've only had to update Flash so far (before cloning). Full chkdsk running right now, SFC after it boots.

 

[NETWizz]

If a drive ever got bad enough to where the sectors won't read correctly & I know the drive is bad, I try to copy everything important off it.... replace the drive... and do a clean install of Windows.

Only then do I know 100% that everything on it should work.

 

[14049752]

I use RoadKil's rawcopy for copying drives in bad shape. I've had it clone non-booting drives to a new drive where the OS boots. It's almost magic how well it works.

 

[kagman]

I have been using Acronis for over a year now but the one thing I have noticed is that its very very sensitive. If the drive has corrupted files or if there are bad sectors the cloning will stop dead in its tracks.

Usually in cases where Acronis fails on me I use a program called Drive Snapshot. Its around 60 or 70 dollars but its been really good to me over the years. If the program encounters any problems on the hard drive it still does an image of the drive.

That's what I use...

 

[Ccomp5950]

I use ddrescue in linux.

It's like DD except it logs errors and will skip over the problems the first time and then come back after it's gone over the good parts and try and trim the errors up to be as small as they can be.