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How does the Solitaire with the Diagnostics option installed handle bad sectors on the Master and Target drives?

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How does the Solitaire with the Diagnostics option installed handle bad sectors on the Master and Target drives?

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Bad (or “weak”) sectors on the Master drive are handled in the following way: By default the first option is “Abort”, the Solitaire will abort the capture process upon encountering the first bad sector. Note that the Solitaire will still make several attempts to correctly read the sector in question, but unless a perfect read was achieved, the process will abort. The second option is “Skip”. When this option has been selected, the Solitaire will still make several attempts to achieve a perfect read, but will move past the bad or weak sector instead of aborting. The third option is “Retry”. This option instructs the Solitaire to spend more time attempting to read all of the data from the bad or weak sector. This option can slow down the clone process. The fourth option is “Recover”. When selected, the Solitaire will use a more complex algorithm in an attempt to retrieve as much data as possible from each bad or weak sector. Although this option is very effective at recovering data from

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