Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-07-06 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Am 05.07.2010 21:39, schrieb Polytropon: On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:09:23 +0200, Christoph Kukuliesk...@kukulies.org wrote: I tried PHKs' recoverdisk with recoverdisk -b 1024000 /dev/ad2 ad2.dmp and it went off quite promising just few dma read timeouts and when I was at 7% of recovery it

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-07-05 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Am 06.01.2010 02:30, schrieb Polytropon: On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:31:46 +0100, Christoph Kukuliesk...@kukulies.org wrote: It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but ignores errors, it just skips sectors it couldn't read (after a couple of retries). The result was, that

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-07-05 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:09:23 +0200, Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: Some student lost some important data due to disk failure. He will restore it easily from backup. :-) I tried PHKs' recoverdisk with recoverdisk -b 1024000 /dev/ad2 ad2.dmp and it went off quite promising

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-12 Thread Christoph Kukulies
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

copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Terribile
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I recall a case when I had a hard disk that had got bad sectors and it wasn't accessible through normal mounting anymore. Then a tool came into the game that - I believe - Poul Henning had recommended or written for this

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-06 Thread Christoph Kukulies
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,

copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I recall a case when I had a hard disk that had got bad sectors and it wasn't accessible through normal mounting anymore. Then a tool came into the game that - I believe - Poul Henning had recommended or written for this purpose. It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread tk
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi, It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but ignores errors, it just skips sectors it couldn't read (after a couple of retries). The result was, that one had a - albeit - worm-eaten - I think you mean

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I recall a case when I had a hard disk that had got bad sectors and it wasn't accessible through normal mounting anymore. Then a tool came into the game that - I believe - Poul Henning had recommended or written for this

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On 1/5/10, Yuri Pankov yuri.pan...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: I recall a case when I had a hard disk that had got bad sectors and it wasn't accessible through normal mounting anymore. Then a tool came into the game that - I believe -

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:31:46 +0100, Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: It copies a disk sector by sector to a file (kind of dd), but ignores errors, it just skips sectors it couldn't read (after a couple of retries). The result was, that one had a - albeit - worm-eaten - image of

Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors

2010-01-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
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.

Copying a disk.

2006-04-17 Thread Grant Peel
Hi All, I finaly have a complete server disk (blank one). I was wondering what 'copy' strategy people would recomend. i.e how to copy a completly bootable server disk (75Gig SCSI) to another identical disk. I have lots of server connections and SCSI connections, so thats not an issue. I

Re: Copying a disk.

2006-04-17 Thread James Riendeau
It really depends on your setup, but you should be able to run sysinstall to partition the disk (See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ handbook/install-steps.html ) Then, run something like: mount /dev/ad4s1a /mnt dump -L -0 -f- / | (cd /mnt; restore -r -v -f-) mount /dev/ad4s1b /mnt/var dump -L

Re: Copying a disk.

2006-04-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Grant Peel wrote: Hi All, I finaly have a complete server disk (blank one). I was wondering what 'copy' strategy people would recomend. i.e how to copy a completly bootable server disk (75Gig SCSI) to another identical disk. I have lots of server connections and SCSI connections, so thats

Re: Copying a disk.

2006-04-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi All, I finaly have a complete server disk (blank one). I was wondering what 'copy' strategy people would recomend. i.e how to copy a completly bootable server disk (75Gig SCSI) to another identical disk. I have lots of server connections and SCSI connections, so thats not an