Third, if this is too complicated/involved for your liking, take the hd to a computer repair shop and they will certainly be able to help you out. Apparently there's a faster "cat" command which I read about here. Note, I ran the "dd" command and it worked fine but took hours. Google is your friend on making sure you run the correct command line so you don't accidentally overwrite your data. This link will get you started, but there is certainly more than one way to do this. Second, you'll need to run the dd command to copy the entire hd contents from one hd to another.
I ran Linux Mint, but just about any current distro will be able to do the job for you. The DOS version can run regardless of the OS thats installed, while the Windows edition installs on Windows 11 and Windows 10. These utilities let you run a number of hard drive tests. It's a little involved for a first-timer, but I made a perfect backup of my hard drive and was able to restore 99% of my data, with only a few corrupted files that I cared about (pictures).įirst, you'll need to boot Linux on your mac. Western Digital Dashboard is free hard drive testing software for Windows, and Data Lifeguard Diagnostics is a bootable ISO file.
After a lot of searching, I finally found a solution using linux. Very recently, my main hard drive on my imac was dying and had multiple bad sectors so it was difficult to back up using any traditional backup utilities because they would either time out or quit due to a read error. If Western Digital won't cover a replacement backup under warranty, here's my suggestion:
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