Question: Hi all erm my pcs other hdd is dying the system keeps saying the hdd is failing and needs to be removed from the os.
My question is how can I clone the hdd fully and I mean I have alot of videos and pictures on it and can’t afford to lose any of it the system is Ubuntu 18.04 maybe some build of Ubuntu I don’t like to use Windows as it sucks Ubuntu is great in my opinion
Don’t say use a hirens boot cd as that shows the drive but all video files are just. File format it can give me the name of the video but not an actual format that can be played.
So how can I clone the dying hdd to a new one with out losing files or the drive dying half way through the job
And yes I know I’m working against the hdd I know it can die any point so need to work out how to clone it before it pushes up daisys
Much thanks to anyone who has a real answer
Answer:Successful cloning depends on how the drive is dying, and how far gone it is.
Many tools can skip or ignore corrupt/bad sectors. But you’re possibly skipping actual data that used to reside there.
dd in Linux, CloneZilla (only works for the same size or larger target drive.
I mean I have alot of videos and pictures on it and can’t afford to lose any of it
Why was this the only copy of that data?
Drives die. All of them, eventually.
The way to protect your data is before the drive starts to die.