My operating system SSD has bad sectors. The drive is still functional, but SMART says failure is imminent. Traditional backup programs could not make an image of the drive due to I/O errors.
I was able to use ddrescue (https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/) to image the drive. Over 99.99% of the data was saved.
To avoid having to reinstall the OS and many programs, I'd like to write this image to a new drive. Because I made the image while the drive was functional, it seems like it might work. Does anyone have experience with this scenario? Is using this image a recipe for trouble/performance issues down the line? I'm guessing it depends on what is stored in the bad sectors.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I was able to use ddrescue (https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/) to image the drive. Over 99.99% of the data was saved.
To avoid having to reinstall the OS and many programs, I'd like to write this image to a new drive. Because I made the image while the drive was functional, it seems like it might work. Does anyone have experience with this scenario? Is using this image a recipe for trouble/performance issues down the line? I'm guessing it depends on what is stored in the bad sectors.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Statistics: Posted by Genetic_Junk — Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:03 am