Hi,
Pádraig Brady wrote on 29/06/08 11:35:
Jon Grant wrote:
Hi,
I am running dd from coreutils 6.10 on the latest Knoppix disc, trying
to copy a failing drive to a new drive so i can try mount the partition.
I noticed that dd tries the to read the same 512-byte block 40 times
before giving up.
In addition if dd can't read the block at all it will not
write anything to the output, and so your partitions will
be even more messed up.
ah, I did not realise that, thanks for highlighting that.
ddrescue may be better sorted to your needs.
Thanks for the tip. Just had a look at it.
I found dd_rescue last night, have been using that, with the -A option
so it writes zeroed blocks if it can't read a block. If this doesn't
work I will try copying with ddrescue as you suggest.
Kind regards, Jon
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