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.
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 :)