Error 0x80070057 failed to copy file

No it's showing up now again, but I had to reformat it. Does cloning make a drive "unallocated"? Because when I started the cloning the drive was definitely formatted into NTFS.

Could it be that perhaps the new drive was formatted into something else, and that's why this all failed? Because the old and the new drive had different formats to them? I
honestly don't remember if both were the same format. But does that make a difference? If one is in fat/exfat or whatever and another in NTFS?
 
RobTheSwede said:
Does cloning make a drive "unallocated"?
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Only if it's unallocated. Cloning makes an exact copy of the drive you are cloning, sector by sector, even unallocated space.
RobTheSwede said:
Could it be that perhaps the new drive was formatted into something else, and that's why this all failed? Because the old and the new drive had different formats to them?
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Not likely as the cloned drive would be copied to the new drive and would also copy its formatting.
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But does that make a difference?
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It should not.

I've never used Aomei but this may help you. How to Copy Data from Bad Sector Hard Disk Easily
 
Okay, well, I'm trying it again I guess. But it's immediately behaving the same unpromising way... shoots up to 49% completion in a second and then stays there, and it immediately and automatically unallocates the Seagate drive that I just formatted (But perhaps that is part of the cloning process?). But I will let it run for however long it runs... as long as the drives are transferring data (and the program lets me see that, and I can of course tell that just by looking and listening to the drives working away) I will let it run, maybe it works this time and the first attempt was just an unlucky fluke.

I'll provide a screenshot so you can see how it looks like. I did choose to clone all the bad sectors as well (because I'm supposed to right?) So in a few hours I will show you guys another screenshot so you can see how things progresses.
 

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Just as I thought, it stopped again... something is definitely wrong, just don't know what. It got to 50% now and then suddenly halted.
 

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If AOEMEI is causing you issues then try another tool; the main reason for cloning your disk was to ensure that you had a backup before you ran chkdsk with the repair option again. The file records for the video files you mentioned earlier are corrupt which is why you aren't able to access them.
 
I know but the problem I'm having is that there aren't that many completely free ones out there, I just don't wanna spend money on this if I don't have, because most of these programs are very expensive and this is probably not
anything I will ever use in my life again after this one time. Hasleo Disk Clone V3.2 is the only other one I can find, is this one legit you think? Seems to be pretty obscure but it says "completely free" on the download link at least.
All other ones I can find are fake-free ones, (important features hidden behind paywalls, etc.)
 
Ok.. More Bad News... cloning the disk appears impossible, I tried it again with a program called DiskGenius, and it failed in a similar manner to AOEMEI, so I deduce that it wasn't AOEMEI's fault to begin with. Went fine for half an hour and then the progress just stopped. So I guess all hope is lost at this point. Very depressing, esp after days and days of working with this garbage. It's such an odd thing all of this. How could this even happen to begin with? Two different WD Red ones (one on 3TB and one on 4TB) failing at the same time in such a weird fashion and in the same way. I have never in my life had any hard drives fail like this, just randomly corrupting 10-20% of the files and I've had a ton of hard drives..

And yeah I'm definitely gonna punish WD for this by never buying another drive of theirs in my life. That's for sure.

So since cloning the drive is a no go, I guess if you guys have some final tricks I can try out I'm all ears. It doesn't really matter at this point if it's risky since I'm running out of options here. And thanks for all the help btw, even tho this probably wont have a happy ending.
 
@RobTheSwede
I feel you. For what it's worth, just random chance; there are drives we've got that are chugging along fine for decades, drives that just fail. I refuse to use SSDs, for example, because every single one I've had or come into contact with has failed and been entirely unrecoverable within a year. I know, logically, that's just luck, but it sure does sting. Anyway, here's my checklist of what to do:

  • If possible, stop using the drives. Shackle them a different OS that's working, and hand-copy everything you can manage to save.
  • As much as I hate using any sort of third-party service, if you can possibly take the drives into a shop, they 'might' have tools and skills you don't. I say might, because I'd be willing to bet the answer is no. It's still worth a try if you have the time and cash.
  • After getting what you can from the above steps, unseat the drives and store them properly. I'll see what other data recovery software I can recommend, there was one suite that was amazingly useful that I cannot remember the name of. If I can recall it and it's not lost software, I'll add it here. I bring it up because I've had multiple drives I've been told are 'unrecoverable' and managed to get some of the data off of.
Sorry for your loss. Computers are exhausting.
 
@agricola

Thanks for the support and tips, and yeah, computers sure can be so much fun at their worst can't they! I hope you do remember what that software was, sounds promising!

Yeah, for now, I will save all the data that I can (which is most of it, even tho, much of the corrupted files "just happens" to be the most important files (of course..) and then I will just chill for a few days with this because i honestly
can't take it any more, I'm just so fed up, but maybe I will come up with something later (or someone here will give me more tips.) I just don't wanna give up on these files quite yet but I do need a break.
 
RobTheSwede said:
No, sorry I didn't try it, it just appeared too complicated for me.
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It is more complicated, but it works. Just from corresponding with you I can tell you have the intelligence to accomplish utilizing the tool otherwise, I would not have suggested it.

Do you have any friends or family that are good with computers that might help you navigate the program?
 
Well, thanks for the confidence buddy, and maybe I could learn to use it; I'm just out of morale at this point. I'm also better at hardware stuff than I'm at the software side of things when it
comes to computers, I've built 5-6 computers in my life and I can usually fix things (or at least find the fault) when it comes to hardware problems, but as soon as it all hangs on software
I just lose the plot. I don't know man, I mean you could be perfectly right here in this issue (because you obviously know a lot more about this than I do), and maybe Clonezilla would
do the trick where the other two didn't... it's just the way my mind work, I go "Two programs have acted the same way, with my luck the next is just gonna be the same.. so it will
be a waste of time.." I just get discouraged you know.

With that being said, maybe in a couple of days or a week I will feel differently; so maybe then I will take another look at Clonezilla. I do believe you that it's a good program.

And unfortunately no, I don't have anyone close to ask for help on this....
 
I completely understand the discouragement with computers. I have ADHD and battle that every day. This requires a lot of extra work to focus especially reading instruction.

I hope I didn't come across as snarky, encouragement was my goal.

Failure = gaining knowledge.
 
No no no, you did not come off as that. I appreciate all the support and help. True that, usually one learns the most thru failure.

You know something that I have been thinking about, do you think the fact that I'm trying to clone the disk via USB cables could be the reason that the cloning fails? I mean,
both of them are hooked up via USB (the corrupted drive) and the fresh Seagate external drive as well.... I sure hope this isn't whats causing this, because I don't
have an empty internal drive to use for this....
 

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