How to recover a damaged partition

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:25 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:

> > Any hints, pointers, tutorials, or opinions welcome.
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> What does smartctl say about the drive? Any reallocated or pending
> sectors? How many?
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I'm new to smartctl, so bear with me.  It does say there have been 649
errors.  I've had the drive
less than a month.  My guess is that many of them were reads of the bad
spots before I got them
overwritten.

>From my ddrescue run, there appear to be at least 10 spots that are or were
bad.
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