[mteam]

I'm going to replace my failing hard drive I've tried making an img using driveimage xml but I get a msg saying it cant lock the drive properly so the image may be damaged would I be better making a boot cd with driveimage xml on it and using that ?

Thanks

[zed]

have you tried acronis? Free version here.

http://support.wdc.c...il.asp?swid=119


or even running a chkdsk first to see if that can fix things before the backup

[mteam]

Tried chkdsk & seagate tools but they cant repair the drive. I shall have a look at acronis cheers for the link

Looks like I need a western digital drive for this

This post has been edited by mteam: 11 September 2011 - 02:26 PM

[mteam]

I've found clonezilla which I shall try once the new hd arrives

[Jock]

get SystemRescueCd

run...

ddrescue -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb

[Renaissance-Design]

If you can't get the disk to work, try putting it in a ziploc bag with a couple of sachets of silica (DO NOT try this without the silica, as moisture will totally shaft your disk). Put that in another ziploc bag (you want to be squeezing the air out of these before sealing them.

Stick it in the freezer overnight, then when you whip it out you'll have about half an hour to connect it up and get as much data off it as possible.

[mteam]

Cheers for that Jock

Chris I can still get the system to boot with this drive so I don't think the freezer trick is needed yet

This post has been edited by mteam: 11 September 2011 - 03:48 PM

[jay76]

I suppose it will depend on the condition of the hard drive, what did you use to test the hard drive health?

As a matter of course I would get your data off that you need, everything else can be replaced

[mteam]

What a nightmare crashed as I was doing the copy

anyhow fresh install now just got to get all my programs back on

[sclarke]

As for reinstalling, look into a program called Ninite, really streamlines the process.