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Is disk cloning helpful for the linux data recovery ?

I have read somewhere that disk cloning can prevent the damage of data. What is disk cloning? Is it really helpful in the linux data recovery? If yes then how it does that?

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Disk cloning is the process of copy data from one hard drive to another hard drive. Often, data of a first drive is written to the image file as the intermediate step, as well as a second drive is loaded with the data of an image. This process is also very useful when moving to the bigger capacity drive.

Any company of linux data recovery services before working on the drive clones a drive before doing anything to protect the data of the original media, so cloning is one of the best utility to start a recovery process.

Cloning is very helpful in eliminating the Bad sectors that can cause the further damages though reading them and can increase if there is more read retries by the mechanical components of a drive. Healthy cloned disk can be the ideal disk on which the recovery process scan can be performed. The drive on which the defective disk would be cloned may be either same or greater than the size of a faulty disk.

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