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How to Clone without copying Bad Sectors

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abasilis
2013-07-23
2013-07-27
  • abasilis

    abasilis - 2013-07-23

    Hi!

    I'm trying to clone a 2TB hard drive to another 2TB Hard drive which I need some information from it, but I only need to copy good sectors only.

    I selected in the expert mode, I left all the options marked by default and I additional selected -rescue and -nogui

    For a Hard drive like this size (I've copied before) takes about three hours. And this one has three days and only goes by 3%, So I'm assuming it's copying the entire drive (with the bad sectors).

    Is there any option I'm missing or by default it has an option I should remove?

    Thanks for any help!

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2013-07-27

    If there are bad blocks, then it's difficult to solve.
    It's recommended to use dd_rescue or ddrescue for this purpose.

    Steven.

     

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