[Alexd]

I have an external USB rack with an S-ATA Laptop HDD (160 GB Fujitsu) which has had an physical damage (fallen off the table while still in the laptop)... The HDD has had 2 partitions, one with the OS and one with data. I'm currently trying to copy the content of the laptop HDD onto my desktop HDD (320 GB WD), on one partition to be more specific. However, HD Clone won't get past 0 %... It starts at a speed of 6-7-8 mb/s, which will go down to 1-2-300 kb/s, but the percent won't modify... Still 0%, even after 15 minutes, current sector - 350.000, read errors - 55.000... So, is there any way to clone the external HDD on the internal one, by jumping between the broken sectors, or should I try another method?

[Alex]

You could try a new version of HDClone by downloading e.g. the Free Version for 3.7, which has some changes in the USB drivers (especially regarding error recovery).

If you have the professional version, you can use the sector range option to specify an offset into the disc where no errors are to be found.

If the Free Version with the new drivers shows the same behavior (Read Errors without any sign of recovery), perhaps you could try to put the defective hard disc directly into a computer and put the recovery disc into the external case and copy the other direction. Reading from a defective disc in S-ATA mode has a completely different driver where these read errors might not pose such a big problem