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

[Knapp]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

This seems to be a great page and a quick read.
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd_rescue
dd_rhelp looks really good also. I also have not tried it yet. I am
working on setting up ssh right now from this page:
http://www.jonathanmoeller.com/screed/?p=1165

Thanks all.
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