Powerlines2000
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Hi
I am after some help from those a little more knowledgeable than myself, a little back info.
Is there any way to slightly reduce the size of the drive clone file as I know that I was only using at max 600gb of the drive or does it not work like that?
I have bought a new 1TB drive for my laptop (to replace the failing one but was loathed to use that to try with ddrescue in case it caused damage to the new drive, Is this a possibility?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am after some help from those a little more knowledgeable than myself, a little back info.
- I have a 1TB drive, Partitioned (100gb windows 10, 900gb data but only about 400gb used)
Laptop updated to Win 10 Creators edition and baulked.
Chkdsk showed 3 bad sectors and wouldn't boot into windows.
Safe mode, revert etc. wouldn't work.
Went to reinstall windows and couldn't due to a boot file issue.
Rebuilt boot file via cmd.
Went to reinstall windows and discovered only 1 931.5gb partition.
Laptop stopped recognising the drive.
IT dept ran drive through an old dos program to detect bad sectors and got the drive recognised again.
3 bad sectors all at the start of the drive.
Was advised by testdisk forum to clone the drive using ddrescue
Tried to clone the drive (shows as 931.5gb) to an USB external 1TB (shows as 931.5gb) drive but it gets to 99.99% and says "ddrescue : write error no space left on device"
Is there any way to slightly reduce the size of the drive clone file as I know that I was only using at max 600gb of the drive or does it not work like that?
I have bought a new 1TB drive for my laptop (to replace the failing one but was loathed to use that to try with ddrescue in case it caused damage to the new drive, Is this a possibility?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.