I have used this several times in the past to pull pictures off of a bad drive. Most of the time I'll just plug it into my Linux desktop, but the CD is good if you are remote and don't have a second computer to work with.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download :wq! jason On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Dante Lanznaster <dant...@gmail.com> wrote: > These messages refer to bad blocks on the HDD. Data on these blocks is > gone. What I would try is to freeze the drive, mount the partition, > try to quickly copy whatever data is possible (don't copy system and > programs, these can be reinstalled) and then trash the drive. > > If you feel adventurous, you can try using the HDD Recovery CD, which > often times repair most of the bad blocks on the drive (there is > something like soft-bad blocks and hard-bad blocks, read about it > somewhere but never tried to understand the difference). > > Good luck with the recovery. > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr > <roger.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm helping a coworker recover some stuff of a failing drive. It's quite >> important to him, as his little girl is very sick and he has some >> pictures of her on it. >> >> I'm hoping to get a clean bit-by-bit copy of the drive while I still >> have options. The hard drive is obviously failing (chunks are bad, and >> parts of the hard drive just don't show up), and I want to get a big >> rip/dump of everything on the drive (including deleted stuff) before the >> drive is retired so that he can later pic through it and recover what >> might be salvageable. >> >> Using System Rescue CD, I ran dcfldd on the drive and split up the >> images in chunks that would read to an attached FAT32 drive. (I'm fairly >> sure that the command is right). However, I'm getting the following >> error (below is a pic of my monitor) >> >> twitpic.com/1iu9v >> >> The dcfldd command that I've been running has been going on for over a >> week (/dev/sda is the screwed up IDE 160 GB hdd), and if that's what it >> takes to get a clean dump of the raw data on the hard drive that I can >> later work on, then that's cool and I'll just leave it. >> >> But if I should cut my losses and do something else here before the >> drive fails further, please let me know so I can do so fast before the >> drive takes a turn for the worse. >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
