About cloning, imaging software, not all created equal ! 3

[xit]

Got one this morning that the hhd reported Smart had failed so I immediately set up a new drive to clone to & crossed my fingers as they had no backup of QuickBooks, tried my favorite software first Acronis True Image 2013, a paid for software,, no good. Next was Easeus Disk Copy, it quit at 40%, so now what, I had an old, free, Hard drive Clone 3.8, why not give it a try, it had the option to ignore all bad sectors, I went with that & low & behold after about 40 minuets, it was successful. When I started the computer up Windows did a chkdsk & replace several files, nail biting time, after a reboot all was good so the moral to the story is don't stop with just one or two programs, the freebie saved the day.

 

[goombawaho]

Different software handles bad blocks or corrupted data in different ways. There are often switches that can be used to tell it how to handle the bad blocks instead of say stopping when it encounters one. Also, some software doesn't like to run on a disk which hasn't been CHKDSKed before cloning.

 

[technome]

Xit...
Don't blame cloning software for not dealing with disk errors. It is commonly known all disks involved in cloning should be checked for soft/hard errors first before cloning.


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[xit]

technome, they were checked prior to cloning, that is my point, different programs handle problems differently, in this case the free one did the job while the paid for ones did not. go figure.

 

[jlockley]

all disks involved in cloning should be checked for soft/hard errors first before cloning." I am in the same position, having tried both Acronis and EZ -Gig (Apricorn). EZ Gig does not clone Seagate Sata Drives at all, the tech told me after hours of exasperated attempts. Acronis, which is the solution used in Seagate cloning software as well (mine is a paid version) does not have the option of ignoring bad sectors.

I have run full chkdsk/r with repair twice (losing much time), so I blame Acronis. And Apricorn. Where is this free software, pray tell? Still available somewhere?

Since one of the main reasons for cloning is not losing data on a failing drive, I find Acronis lacking in spades. Apricorn is just a joke.

 

[jlockley]

Thanks for the pointer xit. I had difficulty in getting to Hard Drive Clone 3.8, but found a reference to Drive Clone, which has a free trial, elsewhere here. It did it in less than an hour, after I wasted a day and a half.

 

[xit]

jlockley, glad to hear I could be of help, that is what this forum is for.

 

[kjv1611]

Good to know on the freeware/shareware program that works. I'll have to (if I remember) grab a link or just go ahead and grab a copy to keep at home for anytime when I actually need it.

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