Program to copy a hard drive with bad sectors

**jakkwb** · August 9th, 2006, 10:59 AM

Howdy folks,

I have a laptop with a hard drive that has developed some bad sectors. I need some software that will copy the whole drive (errors and all), to another drive. Or, if there is something out there that will attempt to repair before copying that would be great, also. Freeware or shareware preferred.

I have tried few, but none so far will copy through the bad sectors.

Thanks,

A

**gemstone** · August 9th, 2006, 11:55 AM

Depending on OS scandisk or checkdisk will clear up any bad sectors for you, no 3rd party software required then use any drive imaging software..........none will actually copy bad sectors\clusters anyway it will just make the program fall over or tell you to run a disk check before proceeding.
Plently of freeware\shareware utility programs to chose from over at www.majorgeeks.com

**Shard92** · August 9th, 2006, 01:29 PM

getdataback for your appropriate file system gives you the option to copy the entire drive errors and all then use the copy to recover what ever is still intact.... not sure if the copy will work before you buy the software or not but you could try it....

http://www.runtime.org/

**slgrieb** · August 9th, 2006, 02:21 PM

You need to license GetDataBack (pay for it) before it will perform the copy, but this is one of the best values in software I've ever found. Effective, easy to use, reasonably priced. I've used it for years in my business. Haven't found any freeware that can compare. Also beats some more expensive recovery software.

**geeksRus** · August 9th, 2006, 11:03 PM

scandisk is evil...dont use it! try THIS free utility...it can be set to SKIP bad sectors...why keep em?

**jakkwb** · August 31st, 2006, 09:19 AM

I like the clonemax software. I started it last night around 10PM. This morning at 9AM, it is only 5% finished! Both drives report to be running in PIO mode 4.

Any suggestions on making this faster? I had hoped it would be finished this morning...

A

**ADS_Tech** · August 31st, 2006, 04:08 PM

PC Inspector is good, but GetDataBack is really good value as already mentioned. Its worth shelling out for.
R-Studio is another really good, cheap, utility.

Theres also some good, free, diagnostic and fix tools for HDDs on Ultimate Boot CD

**Raffaz** · September 1st, 2006, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by slgrieb

You need to license GetDataBack (pay for it) before it will perform the copy, but this is one of the best values in software I've ever found. Effective, easy to use, reasonably priced. I've used it for years in my business. Haven't found any freeware that can compare. Also beats some more expensive recovery software.

Definately agree with this, it was the only program that managed to recover my drive.

Mick