Need to clone older ide drive to intermidiat drive first, then new drive.
Is there a way to cone a disk to an Intermediate drive then the new drive?
I no longer have a computer with the old 40 pin ribbons and using a usb converter.


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Thanks Steve.
This drive is out of a business class printer. It does not appear to have any operating system on it. I does have a bad sector. I can remove the drive, connect to an adapter and view the files. When I run check disk it shows errors and repairs them - sort of. The printer boots and runs for a short time then hangs. From what i see file wise most on the disk, it is set up to handle departments so the drive has maybe 8 partitions.
The closest repair person is 300 miles away and looking at $400+ just to show up plus whastever to format a new drive, not going to happen.
I have a new identical drive so going to give this a shot.
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Mark, if you are able to make a backup of the drive, then you should be OK to do a restore of this to the new drive. If you encounter any bad sectors while doing the backup, then you can try ignoring these and hope that they are not in areas where any vital data would be lost. Worse case is that Acronis will switch to using sector-by-sector backup mode which will make the backup larger, but given this is an IDE drive, I doubt size should be a real problem as these drives are small by comparison to modern SATA drives.
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Had to do it a few times, sector by sector method and it worked. Unit appears to be back to normal.
Thanks and have a great weekend.
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Mark, glad to hear that you got this to work OK for you.
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