Disk clone hangs
I tried to clone my entire 1T RAID0 hardisk to another SATA hard disk by using the automatic mode.
After selected the source disk 1, it prompts "processing" for hours and hangs.
I can't reach the selection menu for destination disk.
What's the problem ?
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GroverH, I'm also having this problem and I'm trying to backup.
My hard disk is failing (BSOD 3x, chkdsk reports problems but hangs when trying to fix, western digital lifeguard diagnostics fails, etc., etc.). At have a new HD and tried to clone using ATI 9.0 running from ATI recovery disk. Hangs on step 2/3 at 99%. Tried backup running from recover disk. It reports a read error at 1 minute 44 seconds remaining. It gives the bad sector and asks if I want to continue. I do. Get one more read error and tell to ignore it also. HD light stays on and nothing else happens. No further errors and no progress made on backup. I was able to backup my data at least. I think I've read about everything there is on many forums, but nothing helps. I hope I'm not stuck with a reinstall of everything! Any advice? Thanks.
Forgot to ask - Western Digital has a version of ATI for WD. It is a more recent version or ATI compared to my 9.0 (latest build). Would a newer version work any differently?
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PennStan,
It sounds as if your backup contained bad sectors from the old drive. Do you have any other backups you can try which might have been created before you had disk problems?
It would appear that cloning is not an alternative which leaves restoring from a backup as another possibility. The use of Rescue CD is your only choice.
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Agree. I was hoping clone or backup would be able to work around bad sectors some way. Don't know how, but I'm not a computer geek. Fortunately, when I installed the current HD last January I did a complete backup after OS and all drivers was installed. So all I'll have to do is reinstall some software and restore my current data backup, which completed successfully. Thanks.
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PennStan,
Certainly you can try using Windows chkdsk on the old drive and see if you can get it to complete and then try a clone again.
If you do perform a restore, be sure and boot from the CD and the first thing is to validate the prior backup to make sure it is usable before you start a restore.
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Dear All Experts, Pls help me out. Will it damage my source hard disk if power fails while disk cloning from 500GB to 2TB?
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