However - to be fair - for a disk that already generates errors it might be the best to use the Professional Edition as that includes the BitImage and/or BitCopy modes. When imaging/cloning it skips over bad sectors and returns in a second run to copy as much as possible ( SafeRescue, contained in Basic Edition and higher). It works on Windows and in a self-booting variant (both with a custom operating system and an embedded Linux (the later requires the Professional Edition however)). Quote from: PascalDragon on February 14, 2020, 09:25:11 am My personal suggestion would be HDClone from Miray Software AG (Disclaimer: I work there, but this also provides me with the necessary insight). Do not do a file based rescue as that will lead to many random accesses. Try to do a complete imaging of it (be it with HDClone or DDRescue or whatever) and then try to recover your files using that. Don't boot from it (if it contains the operating system), but clone/image it from another system.

Whatever you decide for, don't put the disk on too much stress. Though it could also work with the normal FullImage/ FullCopy modes that are contained in lower editions (I won't suggest SmartImage/ SmartCopy in this case). My personal suggestion would be HDClone from Miray Software AG (Disclaimer: I work there, but this also provides me with the necessary insight).

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