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I was planning to try the manufacturer's tool and will do it (although I'm pretty sure what the result will be).<br />
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As for the &quot;Ignore bad sector&quot; option, the GetDataBack also has it, however as the entire drive stops responding upon trying to read that particular sector, it doesn't help at all...
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You may want to give ddrescue a try...<br />
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html" rel="ugc">http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html</a><br />
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It copies what it can skipping over bad sectors then goes back and retrys the bad sectors. I've used it many times with great success.<br />
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The way I run it is to boot up with a Knoppix CD <a href="http://www.knoppix.net/" rel="ugc">http://www.knoppix.net/</a><br />
Then download the latest version and compile it <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/" rel="ugc">http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/</a><br />
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It's not that difficult to set up and it's all free.<br />
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As I said before: I need the program to skip certain sectors that I _MANUALLY_ set. &quot;Skipping bad sectors&quot; doesn't help, as the disk freezes while trying to read that sector the first time.
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You mention this drive was in an external enclosure, have you tried removing the drive from the enclosure and mounting it in the pc... Ive had a few instances where drives that hung up in the enclosure were a little more responsive when physically mounted inside the pc.
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Yes, that was the first thing I did.
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Well I used DiskExplorer to check the contents and saw there doesn't appear to be anything at all on the drive after certain sector, which means that either that part was (hopefully) empty or that the drive is very seriously damaged... I recovered what I could, though.<br />
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Thanks for your suggestions.
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Hi,<br />
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I have come across a very strange drive that needs a recovery of its contents (it was dropped inside an external HDD enclosure). Here's the problem: the drive appears in Device Manager and I can start a recovery application (for example GetDataBack). The problem is when the scan comes to a certain sector (at about 30%), the entire drive freezes. It doesn't respond to any commands, so if I ignore the read error shown by the recovery application, all subsequent reads also fail. The only thing that appears to make the drive respond again is to restart the machine - unplugging and plugging back the drive doesn't help (either on USB or SATA).<br />
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What I need is an application that would create a RAW hard disk image with either an ability to allow skipping certain sectors (before reading them!) OR to continue with creation of RAW image after machine reboot.<br />
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Any ideas?<br />
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Regards,<br />
Darko
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Hi,

I have come across a very strange drive that needs a recovery of its contents (it was dropped inside an external HDD enclosure). Here's the problem: the drive appears in Device Manager and I can start a recovery application (for example GetDataBack). The problem is when the scan comes to a certain sector (at about 30%), the entire drive freezes. It doesn't respond to any commands, so if I ignore the read error shown by the recovery application, all subsequent reads also fail. The only thing that appears to make the drive respond again is to restart the machine - unplugging and plugging back the drive doesn't help (either on USB or SATA).

What I need is an application that would create a RAW hard disk image with either an ability to allow skipping certain sectors (before reading them!) OR to continue with creation of RAW image after machine reboot.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Darko

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