Program to copy data from bad sectors (HDD hard drive)?

I'm currently repairing my sister's laptop.

I've done a variety of things to get it working again, but that's actually not the point. I have now run an adapted Windows Pe version (with gui) from the USB stick and try to back up the data that it still needs, because I have unfortunately found that your HDD has some bad sectors.

Unfortunately, this does not make data recovery that easy, although I have a graphical file explorer and a zip program with which I first pack folders, since Windows can't cope with copying many individual files at once anyway (at least it takes considerably longer than if you have a big one).

The problem is, in the end, that many files are already in these sectors and the zip program or the copying process depends on it.

Of course, I have already tried to filter them out manually and work my way up piece by piece, but ultimately this is not expedient, as it will take forever with, for example, thousands of photos that you have saved there.

In short, I'm either looking for a good zip (currently I'm using 7Zip (maybe it has such a hidden feature?)) Or a copy program to save what can still be saved.

I already know that Roadkil's Unstoppable copier is actually perfect for such cases and is the recommended means, but unfortunately I can't get it to run under Windows Pe, maybe someone can help me or recommend an alternative program with comparable features?

Basically, the program should be able to deal with the bad sectors / defective sectors and be portable, i.e. Run under Windows (or Linux if there's no other way).

Free would be nice too😁

Alternatively, I had already considered whether a backup program could help. Since I worked with Aomei Pe Builder quickly, I already have Aomei Backupper on it.

In theory, this can also be used to create a clone of the hard drive. Then the program can also hide the corresponding sectors, as far as I understand. However, I don't want to clone the entire hard drive at first, because I don't have a data carrier of the same size that is not in use, but only back up the important data. There's also a File Backupper, but unfortunately there's no way to do something with the defective sectors and the program hangs on it accordingly.

So maybe there's also good software that can only be used to back up selected folders, even if there are files in it. This should also meet the above criteria.

Thank you very much if you read this through to here, I know it was a lot.

In such cases I use the https://www.ghisler.com/dusbinst.htm, which can also use hash values to compare the target with the source file, so that it is ensured that the target file is not defective

I would not write the data from the defective hard disk to the defective hard disk using a packer and only then write it to a backup disk…

I've heard of him before. I'll try it out.

Do you have any plug-in that you recommend or is TotalCommander enough?

Which plug-in do you mean?

As far as I know, TotalCommander has the option of installing plugins to add further functions, so I wanted to ask whether you might be using a special one in such cases that you can recommend or whether you are using TotalCommander in its "basic form"

No, the normal TotalCommander and that with the hash values can be used by default

All right, thank you very much

Under Linux there's the command dd (disk dump), with it you can completely mirror a hard disk, sector by sector.

You could use it to mirror everything on a functional disk and then save the data from there

You can use Linux (eg: https://sourceforge.net/...-toolkit/) and then mirror the disk with dd_rescue (not dd!).

Also use the -n -d options for the first run to quickly skip problematic areas. In the second pass you can then fill these gaps - but you risk increasing the damage to the plate. Therefore you should only save the data that is simply to be mirrored first and then "ride around" on the defective areas.

If you want it to be graphical then use DMDE - you can simply download and run it on Linux!