No harm by cloning. If you have access to ghost use without error check, there's a switch for it. I'm sure there are other tools with same option.
Cesar On Nov 4, 2014 8:15 AM, "Bill Humphries" <[email protected]> wrote: > so, I tried running easus tool to clone the drive. After an hour it had > only completed 600 MB and found 80 errors. Even though it's not noisy, you > think I could be doing harm trying to image it? > > > Bill > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > on behalf of Bill Humphries <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, November 3, 2014 8:41 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] help for a hypocrite > > > looking for a suitable hard drive now. Thanks for the advice, Daniel. > > > Bill > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > on behalf of D R <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 11:05 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] help for a hypocrite > > Bill, > > The cloning of the drive would be a good safe measure. If possible, > clone with the exact same type of hard drive and do a bit image backup. > > Then, on that cloned drive, I would use the latest version of EASUS > Drive Partition Recovery. That would at least let you see data, info, etc., > from that partition since it 'reads' that partition regardless what the > current setting is. It sounds like the partition descriptors got hosed when > it went into hibernate mode and Windows, and Linux sees it as a RAW Drive > ready to be formatted. > > Else, if you had a disk hex editor you could just go and modify those > hex descriptors for that partition. It would be tricky, but could be done. > You would just need to know what those hex numbers are and replace them > with what the drive says for the current state of that partition. Once > changed, then try to boot up that cloned drive. It it comes up, great! Do a > backup and of that partition and the system state and then reformat another > drive, reinstall the OS, and then do a restore. Should be a days worth of > work. > > If it doesn't, then use the EASUS Drive Partition Recovery to 'read' the > suspect partition. The utility will need to store those files somewhere, so > you had better have a large thumb drive or an external hard drive that > works on USB 3.0 to put those files. > > And FYI, if you do use that utility, when it does a 'read' of that > partition you don't have any way to tell it to skip certain files and > directories. It does an 'all or nothing' approach. But, once the file is > read and recovered, you can then tell the utility which files you want to > move to a partition. > > Let us know how it goes > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ok, I haven't been fully practicing what I preach and haven't backup up >> a personal laptop in a while. It seems that my little girl was typing on >> it this weekend and my wife saw her and closed the lid...which should have >> made it hibernate. I go to open it tonight and it won't boot. I haven't >> noticed any bad hard drive sounds coming from it beforehand. >> >> >> This is a win 7 thinkpad. I yanked the harddrive and tried to mount it >> to another PC to look at data. In disk manager I could see the small >> system drive partition and the lenovo partition...the windows partition >> showed as RAW instead of readable. I then booted to ubuntu live CD and >> tried to see the data. In DISKS it shows that partition as unknown and >> doesn't present anything as available...but does show the other partitions >> as I would expect them to show in linux. >> >> >> Any ideas what has happened or best course of action? Should I try >> cloning the drive and working off of that? >> >> >> Thanks for any help/insight. >> >> >> Bill >> > > > > -- > Daniel Rodriguez > [email protected] >
