advice on data recovery?

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 01:47 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 00:49, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> > The simplest way to copy a healthy disk is dd:
> 
> Stop right there.
> 
> dd will fail if there is a problem with the disk. Better to use GNU
> ddrescue instead, which will not fail on errors but instead keep
> going and recover as much as it can.

Yep. Good advice.

But dd can be told to not fail on error. Also the OP did not say that
the disk was faulty.

Regards, K.

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