Recovering data from bad hard disk sectors ? (WAS: Feisty: recent updates causing freezes ??)

[Björn Lundin]

On Sunday 12 August 2007 02:51:14 Andrew Zajac wrote:

> It is important that you buy a new (bigger) hard drive or two and
> *make an image* of the faulty drive before you try to correct any
> filesystem problems.  Basically, image the faulty drive to a new one
> using gnu-ddrescue.  Let it run for as long as it will still spit out
> new data.  Put it in the fridge intermittently, as mentioned, if this
> helps.

gnu-ddrescue, seems a bit smarter than just dd, as I use to run.
I'll remember that.


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/Björn