how to save a physical disk

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Jo-L
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how to save a physical disk

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I have a defect harddisk, but with the HexEditor I can access (only) its physical disk. Now I want to buy a new harddisk and try to copy the physical disk. Should this work, and my defect harddisk had 512 Byte Sectors, can I buy a new harddisk with 4K Byte Sectors (advanced format), or should it also have the old 512-Byte-Sector-format of the defect disk? Best regards and many thanks, Jo-L
Maël
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Re: how to save a physical disk

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That depends on the file system and if the hard disk exposes the 4K sectors, or simulates 512 bytes sectors. It's likely you will get in trouble. Better would be to use a tool specialized in transferring partitions/disk images.
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