Unable to clone a failing HDD, looking for a file copy solution

[vincentntp]

I have a failing HDD that has too many bad sectors, imaging or cloning with macrium free to a new HDD doesn't take to it unless I'm willing to wait possibly weeks of leaving it idle which I'm not.

Is there some alternative with copying files directly to a new HDD, maybe a software that can do it all 1-to-1 and tell me what files are irrecoverable? I haven't found anything from searches.
It's not a boot drive and I'm not really worried about losing any data that's replaceable, at the very least I want to save some headaches with where the registry points to and to know what files are lost permanently.

 

[karenjoly]

Did you try CHKDSK to repair the sectors first then try the image/clone ?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chkdsk#BKMK_examples

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872425.aspx

 

[vincentntp]

Did you try CHKDSK to repair the sectors first then try the image/clone ?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chkdsk#BKMK_examples

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872425.aspx

Yes, I've run chkdsk /r at least 10 times and chkdsk /f a couple times too to try to fix MFT to no avail.

 

[USAFRet]

There is nothing that can tell you "which" files are unreadable, because it cannot read them.

All you can do right now is try to manually copy as much as you can.
And do this in small chunks. Trying to select the entire drive folder structure will fail, because when it hits those bad parts...the function dies.

The only magic for this is to recover from the backup you made before this happened.

And stop running chkdsk. The more you mess with this drive, the worse it will get.

 

[fzabkar]

What is the model number of the drive? Sometimes you can apply firmware tweaks to make the drive stable enough for cloning.

Tools such as ddrescue and HDDSuperClone understand how to clone a drive with bad heads or media.

http://www.sdcomputingservice.com/hddsuperclone