test of explainin' skills

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Member Since: Jan 18, 2003

the challenge is to convey to a drinking man, as clearly and concisely as possible, how to do a disc image (on the first try, no mistakes) of a failed drive while it's in the freezer and before it's gone for good. i intend to try this in about two weeks. i want to copy an image of the failed drive onto another drive which i shall purchase soon. i'm worried that i'll have a small window of time, so i need to understand, like, what this process essentially is. how it differs from copying files, and how to do it on the first shot. sure, i could google it. but i don't wanna right now. but i will before i do it. but a primer would be nice, and anyway it's been a while since i've said hello...

:)

i will grant an award to the winner. but the award will suck.

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Since: Apr 01, 2010


Apr 16, 2010 06:39 am

We use Ghost (Norton) here at work. Hook the failing hard drive up as a slave to the new hard drive and do a disk to disk copy. You will boot up to the CD and it'll bring up it's own interface to do this. Just make sure you copy the bad to the good, and not the other way around.

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Since: May 11, 2002


Apr 16, 2010 07:56 am

If it's a critical drive I wold strongly suggest spending the money to have a data recovery lab do it.

I used Vioplex about 5 years ago and they were very successful.

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Since: Apr 03, 2002


Apr 16, 2010 08:00 am

I agree with zek, I've used Kroll/Ontrack before...not cheap, but gets the data.

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