This reply is a little long in between posts. I think it is like a preinstalled acronis that is used to make like recovery partitions on all new computers but I am not sure.
But maybe you just have to have one of their drives on your system.Īs I mentioned, Acronis worked to image a WinXP partition with bad sectors because it had a mode to just copy the parts with valid files, while clonezilla would throw up its hands and quit at the bad sectors because it would only do a sector by sector image and could not read those sectors (unless it had some option I overlooked). So the WD version will image a WD drive and Seagate version would image Seagate or Maxtor drives. Western Digital and Seagate have their own free version of Acronis, but those free versions are specifically for that manufacturer's drives I think. I did not try the bootable image with Acronis because the laptop with failing drive does not have a DVD writer (just reader).įor some reason the Seagate version of Acronis will not run in 64-bit Win7 (which has a Seagate drive).ĭoes anyone know of a Linux disk imaging program that will work on a drive with bad sectors that have been locked out? That is essential for a failing drive. In that case it was WinXP that refused to boot, so I used a USB enclosure to chkdsk /f it from another WinXP computer, made sure the laptop could boot from it, then used USB enclosure to image it to a file which I used later to image the replacement drive. I used the WD version of Acronis to image a bad drive, and it worked great on the warranty replacement. So as long as you have repaired your file system to not use bad sectors, it will work where clonzilla will fail. While that makes it easy to image without knowing anything about the OS, it stumbles (errors and stops) on a drive with bad sectors that cannot be read.Īcronis can do sector by sector as an option, but its default is to just read from a partition what it needs to (which works better for a bad hard drive). The problem with clonezilla is that although it uses compression for the image, it tries to read everything sector by sector. Acronis will work in some cases when clonezilla does not.
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