Do you still clone drives the old way or use modern imaging tools?

I used to spend like 45 minutes booting from a Hiren's CD and running ghost to clone a failing drive... felt like forever. Now I just plug in a USB with Clonezilla or use a hardware duplicator and it's done in under 10 minutes. But sometimes I wonder if the old method caught more bad sectors since it read every block manually. Anyone else debate between speed and thoroughness when doing drive swaps?

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the_nancy11h ago

Yeah, I'd still run a full read test separate if the drive's acting sketchy.

flores.mark11h ago

Ditch the caffeinated patience and go with Clonezilla, man. The old way was just watching paint dry while praying the drive didn't click of death on you. I'd rather take modern speed and risk a couple bad sectors than relive that 45 minute panic attack lmao.