On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:03:09 -0700 LI Xin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently my hard drive goes bad again, which has a lot of bad sectors > for unknown reasons. I am looking for some software that is capable of > doing a sector-to-sector copy of the hard drive. > > I have tried dd but with conv=noerror,sync it would just fill 0's for > the whole block size (say, in order to get best speed you will want > bs=128k or even larger, but that means that you will lose data when 1 > of these 256 sectors is bad). Is there any program that is smarter > which do a sector-to-sector copy for these failed blocks and use larger > transfer buffer for others?
recoverdisk(1) (from /sbin) ? -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B
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