Clonedisk any thing better

[Woger]

This has been recommended a few time may be they all work for the firm that
Makes it, but the firm does not list what it supports..


Very dated, no decent Drives support as it runs under DOS, Plus it 25$us and
for just 12 months use, you have to pay more for updates..


Is there any thing thats better that does not cost the earth..


Tried to run it but it just gets as far as Loading FreeDOS FAT

May be it does not like 2G of memory, they have No help or FAQ on it.

 

[Rod Speed]

This has been recommended a few time may be they all work for
the firm that Makes it, but the firm does not list what it supports..

Very dated, no decent Drives support as it runs under DOS, Plus it
25$us and for just 12 months use, you have to pay more for updates..

Is there any thing thats better that does not cost the earth..

Yes, Acronis True Image.

You can get an older version from Seagate, I havent checked if checks
whether there are any Seagate drives present, wouldnt cost anything to try that.

It isnt much more expensive than $US25 if you do have to buy the latest version.

Tried to run it but it just gets as far as Loading FreeDOS FAT

May be it does not like 2G of memory, they have No help or FAQ on it.

There's very decent support for True Image if you need it.

 

[Woger]

Yes, Acronis True Image.

You can get an older version from Seagate, I havent checked if checks
whether there are any Seagate drives present, wouldnt cost anything to try that.

It isnt much more expensive than $US25 if you do have to buy the latest version.



There's very decent support for True Image if you need it.

Thanks But is it a forensic cloner like Clonedisk that you recommended, true
Bit copies..





I did get Clonedisk to boot, use a MS DOS disk and copied all the files to it
but flags me that it does not support the Hardware chipset , Intel 875P so
this tells you how old and unsupported Clonedisk is..

I have emailed them to see if its still suported software..

 

[Woger]

Thanks But is it a forensic cloner like Clonedisk that you recommended, true
Bit copies..





I did get Clonedisk to boot, use a MS DOS disk and copied all the files to it
but flags me that it does not support the Hardware chipset , Intel 875P so
this tells you how old and unsupported Clonedisk is..

I have emailed them to see if its still suported software..

One thing is that True Image can do sector copies, so is that same as what
Clonedisk does, or does Clonedisk have more retries for bad sectors..?

 

[Rod Speed]

Woger wrote

Thanks But is it a forensic cloner like Clonedisk that you recommended, true Bit copies..

Sorry, forgot about that.

Its better to post follow ups to the original thread.

I did get Clonedisk to boot, use a MS DOS disk and copied all the
files to it but flags me that it does not support the Hardware chipset ,
Intel 875P so this tells you how old and unsupported Clonedisk is..

I have emailed them to see if its still suported software..

Think he is still around, it will be interesting to see what response you get.

 

[Woger]

Thanks But is it a forensic cloner like Clonedisk that you recommended, true
Bit copies..





I did get Clonedisk to boot, use a MS DOS disk and copied all the files to it
but flags me that it does not support the Hardware chipset , Intel 875P so
this tells you how old and unsupported Clonedisk is..

I have emailed them to see if its still suported software..

This looks OK and is Free, they charge for there recovery software


http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/


The also have a Free ebook

http://www.easeus.com/data-recovery-ebook/


From my Floppy days, yes I still use them, you could set the number of retries
for a bad sector read.

Do any on the Cloning or disk sector copy programs have this option..?

The Floppy software that has all these and more options is SH-CopyStar.

 

[Rod Speed]

Woger wrote

One thing is that True Image can do sector copies,
so is that same as what Clonedisk does,
Nope.

or does Clonedisk have more retries for bad sectors..?

Yeah, TI gives up on any bad sector it finds. Clonedisk trys much harder to read them.

The main problem with Clonedisk is that it runs on DOS.

TI runs on Linux when you use the 'rescue' CD and that handles USB and firewire etc much better.

 

[Rod Speed]

This looks OK and is Free, they charge for there recovery software


http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/


The also have a Free ebook

http://www.easeus.com/data-recovery-ebook/


From my Floppy days, yes I still use them, you could set the number
of retries for a bad sector read.

Do any on the Cloning or disk sector copy programs have this option..?

Havent noticed any that do. Havent looked that them that closely tho,
just noticed the author of clonedisk spruiking its use with dying drives.

The Floppy software that has all these and more options is SH-CopyStar.

Yeah, I did use a few of those when I was still using floppys. I dont use
them anymore and usually dont even bother to include one in systems I build.

 

[Woger]

Woger wrote


Yeah, TI gives up on any bad sector it finds. Clonedisk trys much harder to read them.

From what I have read TI can handle bad sectors, you have a option not to
stop on the bad sector.

Taken from the latest User Guide


"5.4.9 Error handling
1. Ignore bad sectors
The preset is disabled.
This option lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard
disk. Although most disks do not have bad sectors, the possibility that they
might occur increases during the course of the hard disk’s lifetime. If your
hard drive has started making strange noises
(for example, it starts making quite loud clicking or grinding noises during
operation), such noises may mean that the hard drive is failing. When the hard
drive completely fails, you can lose important data, so it is high time to
back up the drive as soon as possible. There may be a problem though – the
failing hard drive might already have bad sectors. If the Ignore bad sectors
box is left unselected, a backup task is aborted in case of read and/or write
errors that could occur on the bad sectors. Selecting this box lets you run a
backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk ensuring that you save
as much information from the hard drive as possible.

The main problem with Clonedisk is that it runs on DOS.

TI runs on Linux when you use the 'rescue' CD and that handles USB and firewire etc much better.

Also I think that TI only produces Image files, ? not a strait disk copy..

 

[Rod Speed]

From what I have read TI can handle bad sectors, you have a option
not to stop on the bad sector.

Taken from the latest User Guide


"5.4.9 Error handling
1. Ignore bad sectors
The preset is disabled.
This option lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on
the hard disk. Although most disks do not have bad sectors, the
possibility that they might occur increases during the course of the
hard disk's lifetime. If your hard drive has started making strange
noises (for example, it starts making quite loud clicking or grinding
noises during operation), such noises may mean that the hard drive is
failing. When the hard drive completely fails, you can lose important
data, so it is high time to back up the drive as soon as possible.
There may be a problem though - the failing hard drive might already
have bad sectors. If the Ignore bad sectors box is left unselected, a
backup task is aborted in case of read and/or write errors that could
occur on the bad sectors. Selecting this box lets you run a backup
even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk ensuring that you save
as much information from the hard drive as possible.



Also I think that TI only produces Image files, ? not a strait disk copy..

Thats not correct. TI calls the copy a clone.