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I have a customer of mine who wanted me to backup their info from their laptop. I removed the HDD and went to image it over to another hdd that I have at the shop, and it fails. I wanted to put it on a different machine and just read their info off of it, but it won't read it from my windows 7 machine. The HDD on the laptop has win 8 on it. Is there anything I can do? They have their quickbooks on there and I would like to be able to save the day. Thanks.

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How much is there to move. Usb drive would work but it'd be slow as fuck.

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That's the problem. When the drive is in the laptop, it doesn't boot all the way up. It is a 1TB drive too. :(

I downloaded clonezilla utility trying to just image it over to another 1tb drive and then go from there... but it won't image over. I keep getting the same error message that it is either waiting for a check, or that it didn't shut down cleanly. Both of which I have tried to remedy to no luck.

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I have used a HDD caddy which u put the hard drive in it and it makes it USB so you just plug into your pc and copy off you files you want to save. I did it for movies, music, pictures and whatever.

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What works for me while I was a comp tech...

I used Linux (Ubuntu) booted from the CD, did my file transfers from there.

See if that works? GL!

EDIT: Believe it or not, file transfers were LIGHTNING on that the Linux CD/DVD distro! lol

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So you are saying that Linux will recognize the windows 8 partitions?

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What works for me while I was a comp tech...

I used Linux (Ubuntu) booted from the CD, did my file transfers from there.

See if that works? GL!

EDIT: Believe it or not, file transfers were LIGHTNING on that the Linux CD/DVD distro! lol

Thank you! I don't know why I didn't think about trying this before posting. I usually use Hirens disk which is all linux based anyway. I took the old drive out, hooked it up to another machine running Linux and it was right there. Thanks again. :)

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might have bitlocker running on the old HDD.

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if it wont boot even on the lap top i am guessing it sustained a fall and has physic damage and a few bad blocks.

Can you access it at all from another machine?

if so run a surface scan and mark all the bad blocks and try to copy again.

May be getting a cyllic redundancy error, or as we used to call them "bad blocks"

edit:

nevermind, i see you got it. lol

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The drive was out of a machine that was running windows 8. Windows 7 and older will not read the partitions created in 8. That was my issue. Linux saves the day!

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