[Nick]

I have tried again yesterday with no luck.

Something gets wrong before the restoration process complete.

I run the bootable cd btw.
Maybe i would have a chance of restoring to an external usb drive?
Or maybe try to restore on an unallocated disk?

[nick]

well i did someone manage to restore the hd, but the drive is presented as super floppy.

i can see the files are there but i can't copy the files to another disk because the drives this its un-formatted.

any solutions?

[Alex]

HDClone has the following approach regarding Partition restoring:

If you clone from Partition->Partition, the contents will be written to the target partition, and nothing more. HDClone though presents an unformatted disk also as a superfloppy (labelled ), so it can happen that the content of the partition is written to the so-called superfloppy, which is basically the entire disc, thus lacking a partition table and therefore failing with Windows.

Partition->Disk is the same as Partition->Partition, where the target partition is the superfloppy.

Images of Partitions (and only those) can be restored both do disks and partitions, if a partition image is restored to a disk, no superfloppy is created, but a new partition table is written.

The reason for this difference is that older versions of HDClone didn't have this feature and there are still partition-clones out there that need to be restored the way HDClone does it. We are thinking about changing this behavior, i.e. to make it possible to choose for the user whether he wants to transfer the partition table too.

[nick]

Hi.

i did finaly manage to restore the hard drive to a position where i was able to use a backup software to create an image of the files to another location.

Unfortunately, the program wasn't able to restore the full image so i kept only the files it has restored before it freeze.

i look forward to the upcoming version, in order to mount the backup files to restore the rest of my files which where restored but where corrupted.

any given date at least for a beta version?

tnx again for all your patience.