<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:07 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20120223130744.67e2d40d@shiva.selfip.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:24:44 +0800 Koh Choon Lin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:2choonlin@gmail.com"><2choonlin@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">dd_rescue -v infile outfile so dd_rescue -v <partition to read> <<partition to write> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Curious to know the reason why ddrescue is preferred to dd? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It tries to read and if it fails, it will go on with the next sectors where tools like dd will fail. </pre> </blockquote> good explanation ..... but what do you think about clonezilla ..have a look at this[1] [1] <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <a href="http://clonezilla.org/">http://clonezilla.org/</a> Warm Regards <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Unix)"> <meta name="AUTHOR" content="livewire "> <meta name="CREATED" content="20100413;16400600"> <meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="Livewire "> <meta name="CHANGED" content="20110817;15290400"> <meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="livewire "> <style type="text/css">  </style> */ <meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="livewire "> Jatin Khatri RHCSA RHCE CCNA <a href="http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin">www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jatin</a> Phone (+91) 98250 20393 Save Paper, Save Environment.** (Plant at least one tree in your life and nurture it !!!) </div> </body> </html>