Copy bad HD to a good HD

[Karl F. Larsen]

Conny Enstrom wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen skrev:
>> 	I have an old HD that will not boot up and show windows, but 
>> does run. I would like to copy as much as possible from the 
>> bad to the good HD.
>>
>> 	First I thought about dd. It looks like $ dd if=/dev/scd 
>> of=/media/disk/backup bs=2048 conv=notrunc and it looks like 
>> it might work.
>>
>> 	I also have condaliza-live latest version on a cd-rom. I am 
>> not sure just how to use this.
>>
>> 	Does anyone have a suggestion on these or other methods to 
>> get data off of a bad Hard Drive (HD)?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
> 
> If you can't mount it and read it you can use 'testdisk' to copy files.
> 
> 

	Where do I find testdisk?


73 Karl


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