Anyone familiar with DMDE? (Last shot at cloning a failing drive)

[OfficeJerk]

As the title suggests, I have an internal HDD which is practically dead (bad sectors, I/o errors, cant access the drive) Ive tried multiple different software with no luck (all either freeze, or once read is complete, say the drive is empty) Only software that actually identified and begin to read the broken partition table on that drive is DMDE.

So I have a spare desktop, a spare 500GB HDD and the failing 300GB HDD which I will hook up via sata and with some luck, clone the bad drive over then attempt to poke at it.

My question is, I need to ask someone who has any experience with DMDE, preferably cloning the device straight to another HDD. I don't think I have much time left with the drive, so I need to try and understand the quickest and most effective way of doing this.

Smart detail on the failing drive is pretty bad:

Reallocated sectors:5
bad sectors: 2440
weak sectors: 1199

Any help is appreciated greatly!


Main goal here is to find out how I can clone the device and have it skip all errors and not relocate. Just want a quick clone of what it can read without struggling on a particular section as the device already hangs like crazy.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

You'd be wasting your time whatever you tried at this late stage.

 

[junkeymonkey]

then you got to think anything that got corrupted on the failing drive will clone over to the new anyway. right ?? you can try to install windows on the new drive and get it up then hook you failed drive up like a storage drive and see if it will let you in .. then if so drag and drop /copy and paste things you want over to the new drive ???

bottom line is you want a clean stable install of your os over all