


However, if you intend to clone hard disks for any reason, it is important to use a safe process that will not introduce unnecessary risks to your data.ĭdrescue is frequently recommended for hard drive cloning, as it is a powerful, free data recovery utility and included by default in many Linux distributions.

At, we recommend contacting a data recovery expert at the first sign of hard drive failure, as cloning a drive can prompt a failure and additional damage. When a hard drive starts to fail, you have a limited amount of time to take action, and many online tutorials recommend making a clone of the affected disk before it becomes completely unresponsive.
