Allow me to continue this thread with a question about a method to erase a disk that has bad sectors. I bought a 1TB hard disk and will do the recoverdisk job soon. Then the disk, a Seagate which is still under warranty until 2013 as my local distributor told me, will go back and hopefully I'll be getting a replacement in a few weeks.

But before I'll giv back that disk I would like to erase the disk thoroughly.

Now, is the a way to do that in the opposite direction? Would

dd noerror

do that?

Christoph Kukulies schrieb:
Thanks to all.

recoverdisk

was the one, indeed. phk was the original author. And that was the one that already helped me once. Maybe I could have searched the archives also and would have been able to find that previous message a couple of years ago.

I also found by searching archives, that ffsrecov, now ffs2recov, might be a tool for partially recovering a disk.

--
Christoph

Mike Tancsa schrieb:
At 08:30 PM 1/5/2010, Polytropon wrote:
        recoverdisk

This one worked for me to recover my mum's borked Windows XP HD. It was able to recover enough, that I only needed to find one missing dll. Prior to that, it wouldnt even boot up getting stuck on the failing parts of the disk.

        ---Mike


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