Do you have a failing drive for backup?
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We have launched MultiDrive today!
It’s a free Windows tool that helps you back up and clone old or failing drives.
What else it can do:
Run multiple tasks at once!
Pause long operations and resume them later
Securely erase data before reselling or recycling a drive
Use hash for data integrity
Automate your workflow with CLI
Your support means a lot to us! ❤️
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I once had a failing HDD, and it was a challenge to make a clone of this drive. Is it possible to clone an HDD with bad sectors using MultiDrive?
MultiDrive
@serhii_pavlenko Sure! MultiDrive is built to handle problems that prevent standard cloning tools from working.
We use a special algorithm that helps you clone or back up such drives:
If there's a read error, the utility will send a command to reset the drive's hardware.
It tries again to read the file after waiting a longer time. This gives the unstable media more time to respond.
If the second attempt fails, the bad block is skipped, and the cloning process continues.
The corresponding 256KB block on the target drive is filled with zeros to keep the final data usable.