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Thank you very much Jarad and datahaze for your advice. But after reviewing how to use dderescue I think it may be too advanced for my level of ability, especially since I have no knowledge of Linux. I think I might have to spend more time learning how to use it and assembling the necessary...

Thanks Jarad, great info. Does a drive need to be formatted before you use it to make the clone? I'm guessing not, but just want to understand it better.

okay... follow up. Jared I read your excellent post about cloning with ddrescue and it answered the question I posed about that in the "Why you can't clone with Windows" paragraph. Your post is several years old, don't know if that factor has changed since then. So you are saying that the...

Thank you! Can you briefly list the reasons why ddrescue is better for cloning and or recovering data than R-Studio, Data Rescue PC or any of the other commercially available software (other than the fact that it is free)? I have never heard a clear or good explanation of this, and I would...

Yes I think the clone probably failed. I don't know what error number -4 means in DRPC5, but that's the error I get when trying to access the clone with the program. Nothing is read at all. I tried a quick recovery directly from the drive just for a few moments to see if there would be any...

Using Data Rescue PC5 111.8 GB laptop HDD with Windows XP failed and went RAW. Happened about 2 years ago and I finally got around to trying to salvage whatever I can. Mostly what I need off of there is some personal emails, but even if I can manage to get the files, they are in a funky...