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Imaging from failing SATA drive that can be read but so slowly my old Acronis optical disc can't image from it

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I've been relying on the Aronis Backup 11.5 optical disc for years do just create image backups and when needed on occasion do image restores, and it's saved my company a number of times. 

Right now, though, my current issue is a "failing" SATA drive (which is what the HP desktop machines says SMART is telling it is the status when I boot up). It's working just barely. Apps can read off of it but it's taking about 20 times longer to read anything from it than usual. (I never heard of this before but there it is happening.)

The Acronis Backup 11.5 optical disc can't image it to an external portable drive. I need to find a creative way to image this drive to another drive so I can replace it and restore to the new drive.

Also, separately, I may as well go to a newer version of Acronis at this time and create a newer optical disc with which to do image backups and restores from here on out. And maybe I'll get lucky and that new app and/or disc will be able to image this failing and super-slow SATA drive to another drive even though my old Acronis optical disc can't?

The many Acronis product offerings are a bit overwhelming. I'm not sure which to get at this time or if any might help me create an image from this very slow drive.

I have no needs beyond what I just described. For now I'm still a tiny one-man company, with at the moment virtually zero money. Very soon that will all change and I'll be hiring and employing all appropriate levels of Acronis backup solutions including some cloud backup. But for right now I need an immediate way to just image this slow/failing SATA drive, which I realize is a different kind of data recovering than backup and restore but maybe I'll get lucky here and some Acronis product is geared towards handling this, or else maybe a community member can recommend something outside of the Acronis product line.

Thanks!

Jay

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Jay, welcome to these public User Forums.

Given your description above of your usage requirements and financial situation, you would probably be better advised to consider a different backup solution as Acronis has now become a subscription only provider for their products.

One option would be to use the free Clonezilla product which is a stand-alone tool that can be burnt to an optical disc and used to boot your system(s).

Another option would be to download & install a copy of the free Macrium Reflect product and use this to create a bootable disc or USB drive.