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no. it doesn't seem to be cloneable. after lots of errors clonezilla is either stuck (no action) or returns to start, without any written data. (i will ask on clonezilla forum, too.)

thanks a lot.
i'm pretty convinced it's physically damaged. still it would be good to rescue as much as possible.
here's the crystaldiskinfo report: http://picpaste.com/Przechwytywanie_w_trybie_pe_noekranowym_2013-02-27_213432.bmp-2UTmoahx.jpg
copying data using testdisk seems impossible - testdisk ...

hello,

i'm trying to recover a 80gb fat32 partition, the case is "The disk in drive X is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?)". since both boot sectors were unreadable i chose 'rebuild bs', and after ca. 2 months (!) the operation finished. i was able to see some files, so i chose 'write ...

thanks. but it reports "no deleted file found"...

hello,

i had an error on my usb hdd, resulting in "Windows prompts: The drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now?". i checked it with ubuntu 12.04, and it recommended using chkdsk /f on windows (win7). which i did. and now it's an empty ntfs drive :D (apart from $RECYCLE.BIN which ...