Backing Up with bad sectors? (Paragon Backup and other options)

[vWORMHAT]

So crystal disk info is saying caution on my 4tb Seagate barracuda  , also ran seatools on it and a test code

 B196A3c7. So should i even bother with making a sea tool boot tool and try to use that to fix the drive? i know the drive is most likely on its last legs so ill order another one but for now i need to back it up but paragon is giving me an error 

Is there a workaround for this? or should i or can i use something like minitool to just clone the drive to my backup 8tb harddrive while i wait for a replacement? 

 

any input on what you would do would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!!!

 

TLDR

Hard drive is going bad, cant backup with paragon, what should i do, and is the seatools bootable drive any good at fixing bad sectors?

Edited February 26, 2021 by vWORMHAT
accidently hit ender and it posted

[Archer42]

IMO if the drive is still accessible - just copy files manually.

Or you can always use some tool which can skip bad sectors, like ddrescue, to create full hdd image if you want to.

Or you can search for option to skip bad sectors in your backup software.

 

Running any diagnostics or "repair" on hdd before the data is copied from it is always dangerous as it can cause further damage.

[Kilrah]

ddrescue on linux is made for taking care of such cases.

[vWORMHAT]

10 hours ago, Archer42 said:

IMO if the drive is still accessible - just copy files manually.

Or you can always use some tool which can skip bad sectors, like ddrescue, to create full hdd image if you want to.

Or you can search for option to skip bad sectors in your backup software.

 

Running any diagnostics or "repair" on hdd before the data is copied from it is always dangerous as it can cause further damage.

ok thank you, what program do you recommend to use to backup the drive, cant find any workaround in paragon. If i use DDrescue will that wipe the drive that the files are being copied to?

[Archer42]

Just now, vWORMHAT said:

ok thank you, what program do you recommend to use to backup the drive, cant find any workaround in paragon. If i use DDrescue will that wipe the drive that the files are being copied to?

ddrescue.

You can write image to file, but then you'll have to either read it on linux (where you'll be running ddrescue anyway) or write it to hdd first to access its contents.

By the way I'd recommend using clonezilla live media, since it has all the tools needed to work with stuff like this including ddrescue and you will not have to mess with installing said tools.