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earthsound
Joined: 9 Dec 2009
| | I'm using RawCopy 1.2, in Windows XP Pro SP3, to copy a 640GB SATA drive to another identical drive.
When I got to 64.26% copied (0 read 0 write errors), it quit copying.
I noticed this in my Event Viewer > System:
Source: iaStor
Event ID: 9
Type: Error
The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.
The above device isn't either the source or target drive, but is my root/system drive.
I rebooted the machine & started RawCopy, but this time checked "End of disk first" with the idea to stop when it got to >35.74%. However, when it got to 30.74%, RawCopy quit copying and I noticed the exact same error above in the Event Viewer. :(
How can I tell RawCopy to start from a certain position so I can get the last 5% copied? |
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network226637
Joined: 7 Dec 2009
US | | As far as i know, it is not possible to start at a certain point.
Try possibly cloning the drives on another computer if possible. When you say "quitting" does the program crash or does the progress just not go any further? I have seen rawcopy take quite some time to get data out of a single bad sector on a hard drive.
You might want to also try booting to a live cd such as ERD commander 2005 or mini windows XP and just load the standalone rawcopy.exe from a thumb drive.
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earthsound
Joined: 9 Dec 2009
| | Thanks for the reply.
Actually, I was trying RawCopy on a 2nd computer after I was having trouble using a different program on another machine. The 1st machine is >6 yrs old & I couldn't rule out issues w/ the SATA controller on that machine, hence moving to the 2nd machine.
Yes, by "quit copying", I mean that it did not go any further. When I left it, RawCopy was copying at about 85MB/s and slowly increasing in speed & had an estimated time of a few hours. When I got back to the machine, about 10 hrs later, the copy rate was slowly decreasing, the % done wasn't moving and the estimated time to completion was sitting around 180 days.
Also, I couldn't cancel RawCopy & Windows XP's Logical Disk Manager froze when I attempted to look at all the drives on the machine (to make sure it was still seen by the OS).
I'm not sure why I thought RawCopy would skipped bad sectors. :(
I guess I'm just used to GNU ddrescue, which I will use next, since it has logging (so you it can be canceled and will start where it left off), does a great job of skipping over bad sectors so you can run it again and let it attempt to grab bad sectors in that 2nd pass.
I posted in the Feature Requests forum to add this (where to start on a drive), considering it doesn't look like it's an option, currently. see http://forums.roadkil.net/forums.php?ID=569 |
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Roadkil
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
South Australia | | Rawcopy will skip the bad section but it has to wait for the drive to respond with an error message before it can move on. Unforatuntly some new drives epsically this damn DVD drive in my computer - take AGES to tell the computer "nope - im broken" before the app can continue on. Unfortuantley this is a windows/driver limitation and not to omuch i can do about it.
Someone else in the forums requested a feature to start froma specific sector/part of the disk. I will add that to the next update!
Cheers!
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Chris Haas
Joined: 18 Dec 2011
La Crosse, WI | | I just wanted to chime in and say that I would really, really love to have the ability to start/restart from a certain point!
I'm working on a drive that's got an ugly click. Doing the freezer trick get's me about 20% of the way before the click comes back. I'd love to be able to use RawCopy and say "start at sector XXX" next time. I'd even just manually record and enter the numbers of where it stopped, I don't need anything to remember it for me.
But overall RawCopy is a wonderful program and easily trumps everything I've seen out there, even the paid software! So thank you very much! |
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