help with the recovery of a head crash with a MS ntfs file system.

[J]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:55, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Fri, February 12, 2010 10:46, Knapp wrote:
>>> The main reason to use ddrescue is that dd aborts on read errors (and
>>> you
>>> already know that there will be errors) and ddrescue doesn't.
>>
>> What?
>>
>> Anyway, aborting on read errors is good right? Because the software
>> does not get stuck there looking over and over at the error?
>
>
> No. You want the software to skip errors, not abort on them.

I've had some time to look into dd_rescue (caveat I have NOT used it
myself, only read the info I could find on it) and it looks like a
better option than dd.  It also seems to allow you to read a
filesystem backwards, which could also be useful, perhaps, in some
way??

Looks interesting though... I'll have to play with this some.  Amedee
makes a good point about skipping over errors and not exiting on them.

Cheers
Jeff


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