Hi, Did you try the "-rescue" option in the expert mode? It might help.
Steven. On 04/16/2013 11:46 PM, Kevin R. Bulgrien wrote: > Some years ago I learned of Clonezilla Live as a drive recovery tool. I > was able to recover a hard drive with it by simply copying the failed > drive over to a new drive simply because the failed areas were > non-critical. It was marvelous. It worked because the cloning > process did not allow sector read failures to impede its > progress. Recently I had a drive failure occur, so I downloaded the > current Clonezilla Live CD: > > $ cat /media/cdrom/Clonezilla-Live-Version > clonezilla-live-2.1.1-7-i686-pae > This Clonezilla live iso file was created by this command: > ocs-iso -s -i 2.1.1-7-i686-pae > > My experience was much different. This revision of Clonezilla Live was > unable to replicate the failed drive onto a new drive. It hung up on > failed sectors and repeatedly attempted to copy the failed sectors. I > let it run for well over an hour and it never would stop mentioning two > sequential sectors/drive blocks. There was no evidence that it was > able to proceed beyond the first failure it encountered - though it > was somewhat difficult to monitor as it kept overwriting the status > screen with stderr spew. I eventually was able to figure out that by > switching to alternate consoles for a long time, it was possible to > switch back to the main console and briefly see the status before it > was overwritten. At one point I saw that its estimate at recovery of > the 250G drive was at 1186 hours - making it fairly apparent that it > was making no progress whatsoever. > > I tried a number of ways of performing the replication, including > sector-by-sector copying. Nothing I tried worked, and various methods > would not even try to perform the operation past the point where the > first sector failure was. > > I am not entirely sure that the copy was completely unsuccessful. The > point where it got stuck was where two sequential sector numbers were > mentioned, and where two sequential block numbers were also mentioned. > Conceptually the problem might be related to sequential failed sectors > at block boundaries as bugs can often be spawned undetected for only > infrequently occurring circumstances. This is pure conjecture. I have > not looked at underlying software. > > After many attempts I finally started considering alternative > approaches. I recalled that I still had the Clonezilla Live CD I made > the first time I had success with it and failed drive recovery: > > $ cat /media/cdrom/Clonezilla-Live-Version > clonezilla-live-1.2.4-28-686 > This Clonezilla live iso file was created by this command: > ocs-iso -s -i 1.2.4-28-686 > > Upon locating this media, I booted it, and in a single attempt, > successfully recovered the failed disk. > > I don't particularly know if the Clonezilla project has made an > intentional move away from drive recovery. I looked over the last > year or so of mailing list archives and saw no apparent reference to > this type of issue. In any event, since the web has numerous > testimonials to the capabilities of Clonezilla as a drive recovery > tool, perhaps my experience is of note. > > It would appear that the current revision of Clonezilla Live is no > longer suitable for drive recovery. > > In my case, the drive experienced only sector failures - S.M.A.R.T. > showed no other problems except that the sector re-mapping operations > had gone over threshold. The drive vendor suggested zeroing the drive > to force it to remap all of the failed sectors, however, it appeared > that the number of failed sectors exceeded the size of the spare sector > pool. > > In case this type of use is simply not frequently exercised, I decided > to write this note to note the possibility of an undiscovered > regression, and to put on record a note that might suggest to a future > user that an older revision might be helpful in the case of drive > recovery. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. 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