Clonezilla extreme time consumption

First time using Clonezilla. I need to clone 500GB disk, 16MB cache, to another which is exactly the same type. Source disk is in SATA1, destination Disk is in SATA0. Source disk is containing Win7 64bit in NTFS. No other filesystems. One partition (visible).

Because the source disk, according to S.M.A.R.T. data, contains 199 unrecoverable sectors, I started sector-by-sector with -recover option enabled in expert mode.

The problem is, recovery is running right now for 18(!) hours. Screen is constantly refreshing, disks are making working noise.

Screen looks like this: clonezilla screenshot

And is nonstop refreshing and the counting in far left is rising.

So my question is: Is this completely broken process which I should cancel, or is this normal behaviour?

Thank you for your advices.

EDIT: I found out that this screen is simply repeating. It always shows sector 6543957. Sorry I did not notice this earlyier. So apparently Clonezilla got stuck at some point. I really would like to clone this disk. What now? :-)

almiralower

Posted 2013-06-17T10:46:30.327

Reputation: 81

2the counting in far left is rising The counter on the left is a timestamp. What you're observing means time is progressing. This is expected, there's nothing you can do about it. – ta.speot.is – 2013-06-17T11:05:51.080

1what options did you use in clonezilla? (is it skipping empty blocks, skipping pagefile.sys - hiberfil.sys files, skipping bad sectors, and so on?) – golimar – 2013-06-17T11:24:53.997

@golimar: I do not remember exactly but i use default options with sector-by-sector and -rescue parameter. So therefore, i dont think that it is skipping something. – almiralower – 2013-06-17T11:29:38.690

1You really should duplicate the data as it is right not skipping the bad sectors. After you do that you can attempt to recovery the data on the bad sectors. The more you attempt to recover the files the higher the chances you will simply lose the data all together. Your hdd is failing more sectors will go bad eventually. – Ramhound – 2013-06-17T11:31:10.230

Thank you. But unfortunatelly source disk contains OS with many drivers and software, ~40 email accounts, 4 user accounts and many many other features. I simply hope that cloning will help me. I think I will wait until it finish. – almiralower – 2013-06-17T11:39:36.960

good luck, friend. The last resort is to send the harddisk to harddisk specialist for data recovery. – Raptor – 2013-06-17T15:22:44.097

thank you :) I started new cloning but now without sector-by-sector. It is running for 3 hours and it successfull managed to skip the problematic part. I am stil waiting. – almiralower – 2013-06-17T16:35:58.547

2Acronis from WD finaly thid the trick. Simply click&clack job. The cloned HDD is now working for a month and no problem. – almiralower – 2013-08-13T14:07:27.307

Clonezilla extreme time consumption

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