On Thu, 03 Jan 2019 18:47:10 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 15:56:57 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

I tend to forget about VSS etc., because I always make my Macrium images
having booted from the Macrium CD, in which situation VSS _isn't_ of
course the default method. I also use this - and apologies to readers
who are fed up of me doing this - as a reminder to people to make the
damn CD! (In the past - though not so much recently - I got fed up of
seeing, for example, comparisons of all sorts of backup/image/whatever
softwares, where little or no mention was _made_ of the necessity to
make the software's bootable CD. Whatever the software in question -
Macrium, Acronis, EaseUS, others, even Microsoft's own built-in.)

I'm probably in the minority but I'm one who doesn't make a rescue CD
(actually USB) until I actually need it. Then I use it and promptly toss
the thumb drive back in the pile to be recycled for other uses. Someone
who has a single PC is probably better off creating and storing a rescue
disc but that's not my situation here.

I have a CD with Clonezilla "just in case".
If I have access to another PC (I almost always do) I download
the latest version and burn that to a USB.

To the OP --- Clonezilla does have an advanced option to
ignore unreadable sectors(-rescue), but I agree with Paul, it's best
to use a specialized tool when the HD is failing, like gddrescue.
Do NOT try to clone the disk using an installed program. Use a
boot CD/USB.
Clone, swap it out with the cloned HD and see if it boots.
Even if it doesn't, you can reinstall windows on top of the clone and
then boot it. You will probably still have to clean out/replace other
corrupted files.
But the longer you use the failing disk, the more data you
will lose.
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