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Clone operation - 1 1/2 days down, 3 days to go?

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I'm using the Acronis True Image WD Edition to copy a 1GB HDD, that was receiving errors, to a WD 2GB. I'm running Win/8.1 and did a drive scan before beginning the clone operation. Yesterday afternoon I received an error about reading from my old hard drive. I told it to ignore the errors and continue. At one point after that the time estimate dropped as low as 20 minutes then started climbing again. When I got up this morning the estimate was at 3 days.

Fortunately I can spare the time on that machine and have just let it go, but at some point I'm going to need to pull the plug. This is my second attempt. The last time I gave up after about a day.

Since the time estimate changes I'm assuming that the operation is still doing something, but it sure is doing it slowly.

Suggestions?

David

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Is the failing drive your OS drive? If not, then I wouldn't bother with a clone or even a full disk backup, but rather just make a data backup.

Also, stop using that drive at all until you have a specific plan to save whatever is important from it. The more you use a failing drive, the more likely it will fail further or fail entirely.