1Gb maiin drive on its way out - cloning?

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by Jumper75

Restorer 2000 does a fairly good job of recovering data even from drives with physical faults. It's not free though.

What I find amazing though is that you have a 250mb drive! That must date back to the early 90s. If it's lasted this long it's done well. That can't be the case you mean gb surely.

It was 250Gb, sorry - but I do have drives still around as small (large?) as 5Mb.

As already said, the XXClone did seem to do the job, seemed to transfer everything, it booted and ran from the new drive fine, then seemed to deteriorate in use to the point where it became unusable. I tried it several times, because it seemed so odd.

I finally tried the free version of Acronis, as available with a Seagate drive and that worked fine and it is still working fine. Nothing important seems to have been lost at all.

[KWIL]

I run a mirrored pair and so far have coped with a failing drive, by replacement and writing back to the new one.

[Jumper75]

Originally Posted by KWIL

I run a mirrored pair and so far have coped with a failing drive, by replacement and writing back to the new one.

Yes, windows pro series can do this in software. The best solution for that currently is the SPM-394 from span.com. It's a SATA/SAS interface that plugs into the HDD connector on the motherboard. It beats all the software based cards because it's not driver based so the OS doesn't even see it. That means you can reload an Acronis or Macrium image to an array without having to make a special boot disk.