Ariel, Thank you for your suggestions.
One thing I noticed when booting up Knoppix is that the bad hard drive takes a long time to be "detected" during the bootup. When the kernel is scanning for partitions and creating /etc/fstab it just hangs there for about 5 minutes and I can hear the drive siliently clicking (clicks about every second). I'm worried that the drive may be *really* slow .... but eventually it does boot up and I can see that Knoppix has detected the partition. I have a feeling that the Volume Boot Record has been affected by the bad sectors though... > I'm assuming the old drive is just one large > partition. Yes, it was just one large NTFS partition ... about 114 GB large ... about 112 GB of it personal data. > If you have enough space on the new drive for 2 > partitions exactly the > same size as the one on the bad drive do it, the > extra one will be useful. Well I did buy a 320 GB hard drive, so I could make two identical 114 GB partitions ... but I don't need to format these partitions as NTFS, right? ... I can just use ddrescue to image to the unformatted space directly, right? > Also, I don't know how well or poorly it will work > if run over USB - I > don't know how USB reacts to errors. Presumably USB > is slower then hooking > it up direct. Yeah ... I'm not going to use USB. I took the drive out of its enclosure and hooked up directly to the motherboard. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
