Ergo, not an excuse.Ĭlearly I’m not somebody who deals with data recovery like this usually, as my data that I can’t lose is backed up in 2 different places, and this is only a games drive with a couple of blu ray rips. I, the client, own the system, and can define any parameters I deem applicable to my use case. That makes it, by definition, not an excuse, but a parameter of the situation. I tell you my issue (failing hdd), what I’m trying to achieve (cloning raid 0 partition onto a single disk) and any requirements I may have (not wishing to run dual boot). Which makes me, though not paying, a customer or client seeking assistance. You are in the role of a service provider, as you do this for a living. So you do this for a living? Ok then, let’s try this way. Perhaps that biases my judgment a little bit. Use of RAID 0 for any data that somebody cares about is itself evidence of not understanding the fundamentals of what you are doing. If this could be adequately done under windows, I would be recommending that method as an alternative, because there are a lot of people who I'm sure give up because they mistakenly think that doing this under Linux will be somehow difficult. If it would work, we would tell you to do it. We have considered those alternatives before making the recommendation. When we suggest a tool, don't counter that with another idea. Now if you want help from those of us who do this for a living, we are happy to help you. For all I care, you can put your hard disk in the microwave. Look, it doesn't make a difference to me if you get your data back or you don't. This means that you didn't read past the fact that the tool in question runs under Linux before you decided you didn't want to do it. It doesn't sound like he's talking about dual boot to me. Further, he tells you not to try to install that Linux distribution onto a hard disk. Even according to the author of hddsuperclone, is best used as part of the HDD Live CD Linux distribution, which is maintained by that same author. It also tells me that you don't look into something before farming an opinion of it. This shows me that you only care about the advice of experts if it doesn't disagree with your thinking by too much. The lack of interest in dual boot excuses you from wanting to do this under windows You have to find a Windows method because you don't want to set up dual boot. You have to ignore the recommendations of experts because whatever. That is the definition of making an excuse. You said you didn't want some kind of dual boot whatever. No, you cannot destripe them in-place, the data would need to be written to another disk. It's looks like your RAID is 2 x 1TB? So you would need a 3TB+ HDD to hold the images (each image will be exactly 1TB, plus the filesystem consumes a little bit of space itself). You can image multiple disks to a single drive, but that drive needs to have greater capacity than the sum of all source disks. Recovering a few save files is much more feasible than trying to recover entire games. Save files should all be sync'd to the cloud, but if they're not for some reason, you still have the option to attempt recovering them from the RAID drives. Applications rarely survive data recovery intact, especially from a faulty disk, because it only takes one damaged file out of dozens of GB's to break the whole thing. If that's the case, you be best off just cutting your losses and redownloading. It contains no data I can’t get again, it’s my steam/Xbox game pass If you make it this far, you will then use other recovery software to reconstruct the RAID from the clones and copy the files to a final location. But there are far better tools to attempt cloning.įirstly, if data on these drive is worth paying for, unplug them before they get any worse, and send to a professional for proper recovery.Īside from that, your next best software option is to use to clone each individual drive. Is there any repairs I can run to increase my chances of a successful clone?Ībsolutely not, you cannot use software to "repair" a failing drive. So you don't want to use tools that cause you to repeat things. These multiple failed cloning attempts have also caused unnecessary stress to your dying drive for every second the drive is powered up, and every sector that is read, the drive's health is worsening. This type of partition copy is not what you want to be subjecting a failing drive to, it's completely unsuitable for it.
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