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I am performing data recovery on a HDD that has SMART failure. I need to get all the data copied off this disk. The disk contains a Windows C partition, that is all. I have many softwares and external disks for this task, the quantity of tools is not the issue, I have Hirens, Aomei, RecoverIt full edition, Linux, and others. There is 500Gb of data on this 1Tb disk, and anytime I attempt to copy the files individually, it copies 98% and reports that 2% cannot be read; I tell Windows to always automatically skip files and areas that cannot be read, but none-the-less, it still gets stuck moving 0bytes of data for long periods of time, and moving even a few Gb can sometimes take hours. I used Aomei Backupper to clone the disk, but it failed due to inability to read parts of the disk. What is the most time and labor efficient method to copy the data? I cannot monitor this disk transfer for 40 straight hours, I do not have the time for that. I cannot afford to pay professional data recovery specialists to recovery this. Thanks dudes.

user1524201
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From a linux bootable USB thumb drive or whatever.

try ddrescue

 ddrescue -f -r3 /dev/sda /dev/sdb mapfile

This copies the 1st hard drive (sda) to the second hard drive (sdb). The existing contents of the 2nd hard drive will be erased.

This may take a long time, but it won't require you to baby sit it.

cybernard
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