[Tfug] Drive recovery

[Jordan Aberle]

I agree Harry, dd_rescue is the route you would want to try first.  If you
don't have luck with dd you will want to give this a try
http://www.datarecoverylinux.com/kernel-linux.html

<http://www.datarecoverylinux.com/kernel-linux.html>-Jordan


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Harry McGregor <micros at osef.org> wrote:

> Bexley Hall wrote:
> > --- On Wed, 6/3/09, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> dd is completely unaware of what a sector is -- It's completely
> >>
> >
> > My bad, I didn't expect to be taken literally.  :-(
> > s/when the sector(s) in question return read errors/when a read(2)
> > encounters the defective sectors and returns an error/
> >
> >
> <snip>
>
> This is the reason I suggested dd_rescue instead of dd.
>
> dd will barf with i/o errors, dd_rescue will continue reading.
>
> There is also GNU ddrescue (not the same as dd_rescue), and it does a
> good job too.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
>
> http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
>
>                         Harry
>
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