I have photos and files that I do wish to recover and although I have backed them up I'm fairly sure that there are some that aren't on the most recent backup. Most of the contents is movies and music, which although is a PITA to lose, it's not the biggest concern. I'm conflicted now as to whether to continue with the disk imaging and risk the drive failing in the month it'll take to scan or to go again and try and read the disk and access whatever I can now, but knowing that I may not be able to start the image cloning again. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error, again.

However since the early hours of this morning it began returning the Read disk XXX at position XXXXX failed after 1 attempts.

I have since removed and reinserted the HDD into the other dock and tried creating an image again, this time it began working and until today looked ok. Test Error Code:Đ6-Quick Test on drive 8 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 105 (Unknown Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 8!

I then tried R-linux to try and recover damaged partitions, in running “open drive files” the programme generated errors in trying to read the disk (see screenshot below). Using that I scanned the drive and selected “Yes” Thinking I had a damaged partition I then downloaded DiskInternals Partition Recovery If I try to access these files through DI Reader I get the error I first tried Linus DiskInternals Reader to copy the data, the programme read the drive as I'm using windows 10 Pro on an Intel Core i5-6400 CPU, 64-bit OS, 圆4-based processor. Prior to this I first tried Disk Internals to try and read the drive I have a WD My Book Live 3TB that has failed, I've removed the HDD mounted it into a dual USB3 dock and am 3 days into a 41 day clone of the drive.

I'm in the process of creating a disc image and I'm reviewing whether to continue or not, any advice on what you would do in this situation would be greatly appreciated.

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