Error Handling

Disk Clone has a wide capabilities to handle errors during continuous disk processing. Those are the advanced settings to configure Disk Clone's error handling.

Error handling attributes

Disk Clone allows user to select 1 of 3 ways to handle Read/Write Errors:

Abort entire disk group processing
This means that if user runs a Batch erase and one of the disks has errors the erase process for ALL the disks in the batch is terminated
Abort only failed disk from group processing
This is the suggested setting. Failed disks return an error and terminate the erase process. But other disks in the batch are not interrupted from the erase operation
Ignore error for disk grouping
Ignores the read/write error and continues erasing wherever is possible on the disk. No active or forth going operations are terminated
Terminate process after number of errors
Sets the error threshold to a certain amount before the disk operation is terminated and deemed unsuccessful
Number of Read/Write attempts
Sets the number of attempts Disk Clone makes to perform an operation when an error is encountered before it stops execution
Ignore preceding results
Errors (if any) on previous steps (i.e. Examination) are ignored and following steps (i.e. Erase, Clone) will be performed. If turned off the errors on previous steps will stop all further actions
Use disk lock
Locks disks from being used by any other applications
Ignore disk lock errors
Errors encountered with Disk Clone not being able to access locked disks are ignored
Ignore read/write errors
Toggle whether errors should appear for read/write errors
Rely upon disk performance
Set a minimum acceptable read/write speed in megabytes per second for disks to flag under-performing drives.

S.M.A.R.T. Diagnostics

S.M.A.R.T. attributes may also be used in error handling. So threshold limits may be set on some or on all of the disks S.M.A.R.T. parameters. This may speed up processing by immediately terminating operations with unusable drives

Note: Query execution for S.M.A.R.T. attributes is time and resource consuming operation. It can interrupt disk erasure procedure for several seconds. Thus it is recommended to validate these attributes not very frequently