u/Angeplay

HDDSuperClone questions

HDDSuperClone questions

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Hello,

So I have this (very) old 40 Gb HDD that failed 15 years ago. I kept it in case I would be able to recover some data in the future.

Well, the future is now so I set up my old computer (which have an IDE port) and tried Disk Drill to image it but the disk made the computer freeze after a few minutes (It did that back in the days too, no surprise).

Then I created a live USB with HDDSuperClone and created a project to image the disk but in reverse (Told myself if it crashed that quickly with Disk Drill I'd better start from the end of the disk.)

It went through the first two phases fine, no freeze no crash, but now it's on phase3 and tells me it needs multiple days.
I'm afraid I'm loosing time imaging the empty space at the end of the disk, I'm not sure if the disk will survive 10 days like that.

Can I just press stop, untick 'reverse' and resume the job?
Do I need to manually save the project or is it automatic?
Or should I just let it continue since it already did 10Gb?

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u/Angeplay — 9 hours ago