After that time I got fed up because at that point I could not even see how much was left because different error messages had messed up the screen so much that it was impossible to see what was going on.

Even more than 24 hours was not enough to get all data copied from my partially damaged hard disk to image :-(. I tried Clonezilla several times with several options, but in this case it seemed to fail to perform the task as I wanted. My plan was to create an image from the current hard disk to external USB hard disk, and then copy from it to a new hard disk. There is a -rescue option in “Expert” mode which is supposed to allow to copy a disk with bad sector. There are even tutorial videos like Backing Up / Imaging your Windows / Linux Hard Drive using CloneZillaand How to clone or copy one harddrive to the new harddrive or SSD. Clonezilla is available as a bootable live CD. Clonezilla is the Free and Open Source Software for disk imaging and cloning. How to Clone a Hard Drive With Bad Sectors article and some friends recommended trying Clonezilla. One way to solve the situation is to copy the data from existing hard disk to a new hard disk before it goes too bad (the hard disks had already a growing number of bad sectors in it). The standard backup that came with Windows Vista only copies user data (not the system), so something had to be done before the hard disk completely fails (I don’t want to reinstall whole system). This makes sure that all my important data is saved. This meant backing up the data to external USB hard drive and on-line backup service CrashPlan (good service and software that work on Windows and Linux). The first task I did was to back up the data. It showed things like slowing down very much every now and then, and very often after boot the system asked for disk checking. I just recently had the situation on my home PC that the hard disk was starting to fail. When a hard drive fails, there are many times that I’ve wanted to clone the data from the hard drive to a new drive to recover. Fixing a failing PC by cloning the hard disk

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