What's the proper way to save my data from a failing HDD?
I have a hard drive with read errors and reallocated sectors, it's been increasing slowly over the last two months.
I finally got a bigger hdd but I wonder if need to do a special process or something to avoid more errors?
Or can I just copy / transfer all my stuff from the bad hdd to the new one.
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Either send it for adr, or risk it yourself using something like ontrack
the drive is not dead yet.
I have not noticed any errors or weird behavior, no clicking noises.
But SMART tells me there are reallocated sectors and some read errors.
I just want to know if need to clone the drive or could I just "move to" new drive.
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Just bite the bullet and transfer everything at once. If it's meant to be it's meant to be.
Find a ddrescue tutorial on the internet then recover your data from the disk image
Or use it to copy your old HDD to the new one then grow the partition
How do I find if I have corrupted data?
spinrite
USE SPINRITE
is there a FOSS alternative?
>send it for adr
sorry, who?
>I just want to know if need to clone the drive or could I just "move to" new drive.
i dont understand what you're asking, a sector that fails to read wont be read regardless if its a driveimage software or just a file copying software
its not FOSS, but gratis, windows only i believe.
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
mess with the options:
>STEP1 have it just copy all good files first, then it starts going thru the bad ones...
or just have it skip bad ones, then
>STEP2 decide which files with errors you can ditch, set a meidum number of retries nbetween fast and best recovery, or manually to 10 i dontkow
>you can resume files
>you can paste a list of files to copy, not just a dir path (like just trying some bad ones you really need, to try them first)
worst case you end up with some iso/zip/rar files with 000 in some bytes, they are still quite readable, unfortunately, winrar and 7z both still dont extract without closing the operation on first error, but if you manually extract by opening the archive and not selecting the bad files, you can recover all the rest
>adr
Advance Data Recovory
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Can I delete files?
>What's the proper way to save my data from a failing HDD?
By having it backed up on another.
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