Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

Well I knew it wouldn't be easy, I had started the copy and then got this error message

(com.apple.diskutility error 3.)

And after I got a "status 5" message.

Any ideas what happened there?

I did it within the disk utility.

Would doing from the startup/OS X recovery disk make any difference?

The SMART values are the wrong end but low enough to make the all the status GREEN.

If the drive is healthy, yes.

Have you checked SMART values of the drive?

Read my guides

Links are in the signature at bottom

Thanks for the reply.

Is ddutility thorough enough to copy absolutely everything?

Sure

One disk image is just a file which size is equal than the size of the drive you clone.

So you need a partition/volume of a size large enough to contain such file, no matter how that volume rely on.

BUT BEWARE cloning drives...

Read my hints and tips on this argument. Check out my signature at bottom of this post

Unless you don't care too much about your data.

Hi,

Would a spanned volume in OSX work just as well for creating an image of the problem drive as a RAID0?

My problem drive is 3TB, my two spare disks are 2TB and 1.5TB (3.5TB).

I have been advised by support to create a RAW image using diskutility or ddutility.

Many thanks for any replies and help, I have emailed support but figured they may not work weekends.