If I were you, I'd ask ChatGPT (or some other LLM) to help you. Try the following prompt:#promptideas
"I need help setting up WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on my Windows computer, so that I can use the linux based tool 'dd' to clone a hard drive that reportedly has bad sectors. I have no experience with linux, so I need step by step instructions, like i'm a complete beginner"
There are many free, lightweight Linux systems that can be installed and run from a USB drive. If the drive you are trying to copy is the boot drive for your computer, you will very likely need to remove the drive, or boot your computer with an external OS anyway, because most tools will not allow a full disk scan or copy on the disk that is running the Operating System.
Linux dd command is one of the most powerful disk copy/restore tools out there.
I am using Windows. :(
In Windows we have scan disk but it looks too much time..
If I were you, I'd ask ChatGPT (or some other LLM) to help you. Try the following prompt:#promptideas
"I need help setting up WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on my Windows computer, so that I can use the linux based tool 'dd' to clone a hard drive that reportedly has bad sectors. I have no experience with linux, so I need step by step instructions, like i'm a complete beginner"
There are many free, lightweight Linux systems that can be installed and run from a USB drive. If the drive you are trying to copy is the boot drive for your computer, you will very likely need to remove the drive, or boot your computer with an external OS anyway, because most tools will not allow a full disk scan or copy on the disk that is running the Operating System.
that was the name of it. Thank you :)
I'd imagine ubuntu or some other linux distro would be a good bet
unfortunately I do not have Linux experience
Clonezilla may do the trick, but not sure how it deals with the bad sectors.
ok will check..
I tried qith r drive but it fails because of bad sector error.
I forgot which application it was but one paid application allows that in its free version. So make sure to see if your options have that feature.
I am trying with one freeware but form last 8 hous it has done cloning almost 70%. The speed is very low many be because of high bad sectors numbers.