On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > If the problem is bad sectors, I'd suggest dd_rescue to get a disk image of > whatever is readable. Be prepared for it to run a long time ( >> hours) and > for it to be totally unusable thereafter.
I would like to mention ddrescue as well (notice the missing _). The difference between ddrescue and dd_rescue is the algorithm. While they take the same time to copy 100% of the data, ddrescue can normally copy 99.9% of a damaged drive _way_ faster than dd_rescue because ddrescue handles bad blocks differently. /Ole _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
