Bad Sectors Help ive check forums and irc i need help

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Mon Dec 21 19:39:32 UTC 2009


Folks:

> ddrescue /dev/sda1 /mnt/sdb1/recovered_ext3.img

When trying to recover from a disk failure, ddrescue (or dd) is the way 
to go to ensure you get the most data possible off the drive.  ddrescue 
takes a third parameter, a log file.  It'd be wise to use it so you know 
how things went.

--Dan

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