Recent content by maximus

The source code is now available in the hddsuperclone website downloads area. Enjoy.

I have been thinking heavily about making it open source, and now have made the first commitment step. I have placed a free license on the purchase page of the website and disabled the purchase pages. Everyone enjoy the free license, and feel free to donate. The source code will come in time...

Because when major changes are made in the kernel, it can be very difficult to find any information on how to modify the code to work. This can take many hours/days/weeks of time to attempt to figure out. Also, as I have stated in the thread on hddguru, I am very seriously considering making...

First I would like to point out that this is one case where HDDSuperClone is absolutely no better than ddrescue. There is no advantage. Second, it is very capable of cloning a CD/DVD to an image. You only need to choose the "Generic source device" mode, and the CD/DVD drive should be in the...

New version released. HDDSuperClone Changelog version 2.3.2 20220123 * Fixed a bug with Direct USB mode with the Virtual Driver * Change made to attempt to work with sleeping ports HDDSCViewer Changelog version 0.9.beta 20190901 * Added the option Show high time HDDLiveCD changelog...

First, since I missed doing a sale for Cyber Monday, I am having a New Years sale, which I will probably end at the end of January. Information is in the HDDSuperClone Purchase area of the website. New version released. Actually I missed posting about the previous version. HDDSuperClone...

When I get topic reply notification emails with a message like this: If you want to view the newest post made since your last visit, click the following link: That link will open the topic, and sometimes it will be in a recent spot that I was viewing, but it will never open asking for a login...

Wow, the read size per head is about 15GB. For HDDSuperClone to work well you would need to change the skip size to about 600000 LBA (the default is only 4096). Might need to increase the max skip size too, I don't remember what it sets the limit at by default as I have never encountered an...

Well, it looks like the head skipping algorithm worked well. The first two passes with skipping yielded 90% in about 7 hours. But that last 10% is going to take awhile from what I can tell. If anything this is a good test drive now. Just still hoping for that last 10% to be successful.

It's time to officially name it. The new Linux cloning tool will be named HDDSuperClone. It is currently in alpha testing, and for the most part functionally stable. There is much work to be done before a beta release of the free version, but I just wanted to make sure everyone knows I am still...

Here are a couple screenshots of ddrescueview analysis of a smart self learning head skipping algorithm I am working on. This drive has only one platter with 2 heads, and actually only has a weak/damaged head that has many single sector errors, but this drive is actually 99.9% recoverable. The...

While the biggest interest on this forum seems to be the upcoming cloning tool (which I am currently working on), I would like to point out something that HDDSuperTool can do now. It is known that some Western Digital drives can suffer from a firmware issue which causes them to be very...

There are two ways I can power cycle a drive. The first method is to use a computer power supply to directly power the drive, and to use a relay to turn the power supply off and on the same way a computer would do. The second method is to wire two relays into the 5v and 12v wires to the drive...

Since the two things I can't do with software are hard resets on PATA IDE drives and power cycles, I was wondering what the value is for the hard reset on these drives as compared to a power cycle. I want to know if it is worth it to make modified ribbon cables to be able to perform this hard...