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Using Disk Clone within A.TIH19....sector-by-sector?

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Basically I have a problem with a hard drive. Long story but I've had to use recovery software (Stellar) to try and recover files.

 

I've had it put to me that I should get a drive of equal capacity (6TB) and clone the 'bad' disk BUT a sector-by-sector clone. I'm told this method of cloning will also clone everything that is 'missing' so that say I'm working on the duff drive and get a power cut, I'll have another to go at, or if the hard drive is physically knackered and goes on me, I'll have another to work on.

 

I never even know ATI did cloning as part of its TI software. It was only when I asked for a suggestion, someone told me about ATI2016.

That's when I took a look at my 2019 version & there it is.

 

So bearing in mind this is the problem - how do I go about doing that kind of cloning method?

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If I may offer some advice to you based on my own experiences of working with failing drives, then I would not recommend using cloning at all.

The process that I have used is by making a full disk Backup of the failing drive where the drive is removed from the original system and attached via a USB 3.x Hub or Dock, and the backup run on a fully operational second system, with the backup archive stored on a further spare drive.

Backup has Advanced Options that allow for different sector-by-sector permutations, i.e. only used sectors or all sectors on the drive, plus you can set an option for whether to ignore bad sectors without presenting the user with a message that has to be answered!

With a large failing drive, the Backup can take an extended time to complete.  For me on the last couple of drives, this was over 12 hours just for a 1TB drive, and the storage drive for the backup also needed to be of the same or larger capacity.

Once you have a Backup image, then this can be restored to a new or spare drive that can then be worked on to recover data without putting any further strain on the original failing drive.  Again the restore target drive needs to be of equal size or larger when sector-by-sector is involved.  For me, the restore time was also over 12 hours, and I typically did both the Backup & Restore operations overnight, setting it off early evening and monitoring progress for a while to ensure all was proceeding, then leaving it while I slept!

The benefits of having a backup image is that you can restore this as many times as you wish without any need to touch the original drive.

In the past I have taken an approach similar to that suggested by @Steve Smith.

Ian