On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 03:06:44PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Hello. > > Few days ago, I tried to clone a damaged[1] disk to another one, of > the same size, with dd. > I had to interrupt the copy after more than 24 hours, because it was > obviously too long[2].
Have you looked into using "recoverdm" ? The debian package description for this looks like what you need: Description-en: recover files/disks with damaged sectors This program will help you recover disks with bad sectors. You can recover files as well complete devices. In case if finds sectors which simply cannot be recoverd, it writes an empty sector to the outputfile and continues. . If you're recovering a CD or a DVD and the program cannot read the sector in "normal mode", then the program will try to read the sector in "RAW mode" (without error-checking etc.). This toolkit also has a utility called 'mergebad' which merges multiple images into one. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131111171210.GC31587@hawking