HDD backup/Clone dock

[mattyg]

I have a HDD failing that has some backups on.
The PC grinds to a halt with the drive connected so every attempt at a backup of it has failed. Its about 1TB and cant get past about 58gb disk check gets to 98% and sits there so I have to skip that to boot. So last ditched attempt would be a dock I can plug that and a back up drive into and hopefully it'll copy across.

Any suggestions there a Sabrent one on the rainforest for about £40 not really bothered about the cost if there was a better one I'd give that a shot instead.

Anyone managed to get a dying drive backed up. away from the PC..

And any recommendations for a 2 bay dock

Ta
Matt

 

[qbazdz]

Never used the clone dock, so not sure why would this be any different to booting from another drive and cloning the contents from one drive to another in another system?
From your description it sounds like you are using that failing drive as a boot drive which makes it impossible to start up and do a clone..

 

[SpellowHouse]

I bought a generic docking station of the forest for both HDD and then another one a few years later for SSD. Both cost less than £20 and worked just fine. They are very handy to have for copying drives without pulling your PC apart, but they won't allow you do do anything your PC can't do, so I am not sure why you want one. You can just copy any intact files over to a new drive, with or without a dock, albeit it will slow down and potentially stop when you hit the problem on the disk. There is no getting round that.

 

[mattyg]

Never used the clone dock, so not sure why would this be any different to booting from another drive and cloning the contents from one drive to another in another system?
From your description it sounds like you are using that failing drive as a boot drive which makes it impossible to start up and do a clone..

Its not a boot drive but it did have my dropbox on it. So everytime it was plugged in the dropbox app would try to access it and the system would just grind to a halt

I bought a generic docking station of the forest for both HDD and then another one a few years later for SSD. Both cost less than £20 and worked just fine. They are very handy to have for copying drives without pulling your PC apart, but they won't allow you do do anything your PC can't do, so I am not sure why you want one. You can just copy any intact files over to a new drive, with or without a dock, albeit it will slow down and potentially stop when you hit the problem on the disk. There is no getting round that.

The system could see what was on the drive but couldn't get anything to copy over from it.
Luckily as it turns out it was just my 1tb of dropbox so it was all backed up anyhow. PHEW!! so just added a new drive and reinstalled the dropbox folder.

The docking station couldn't clone either.. It would start then say it was done within about 3-4 mins, But nothing happened.

 

[adrichardson81]

Can you get into Windows with it long enough to resize the partition? That's worked for me in the past to keep it stable long enough to make a good copy.

You leave the bad sectors as unallocated space, but that depends on all your data being in front of them.

 

[mattyg]

Can you get into Windows with it long enough to resize the partition? That's worked for me in the past to keep it stable long enough to make a good copy.

You leave the bad sectors as unallocated space, but that depends on all your data being in front of them.

Ive sorted that unit.. The stuff was already backed up on Dropbox..

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