I have a bad drive in a laptop and am attempting to salvage what I can with (roughly) dd conv=noerror,sync if=/dev/sda3 of=/nfs/backup where the of is NFS mounted from another system.
This keeps trying when it encounters a disk read error, but there are lots of errors and it is very slow (only 200MB transferred in c 9 hours). The first 62G went OK, but the disk is c 75G. I'm willing to accept some sectors as lost, but it would really help if there were a way to do so quickly. Is there? I think the drive is SATA; it's in a Dell Latitude D630 laptop. I booted off a Knoppix 5.1 CD. sda3 is an NTFS partition. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
