2009/1/3 sara fink <sara.f...@gmail.com>: > Recently I searched for diskimage programs and came across this program > http://www.dubaron.com/diskimage/ but I haven't tried it. > That program is for windows.
I have access only to linux for that matter. > There are other 2 programs for linux which you might consider and they are > for linux. Clonezilla (I wasn't succesful with that, due to other reasons, > but might work for you) and the 2nd option which I prefer is g4u. g4u you > rescue to ftp server. upload the files to a ftp server. This might help. I > will try later today g4u and tell you. I use g4u to backup ntfs filesystems. My problem is with (what appears to be) a currupt media. Clonezilla and g4u are sort of backup programs. That's why I think ddrescue is the right tool - it just keeps trying to read each and every block on the device and skip over blocks which can't be read even after a few retries. > > As for your questions: > What makes you think that if you put another usb hd you will start from 137 > and up? No, I don't think I need another USB hd, I think I need another external IDE->USB enclosure with an IDE/ATA controller which can support 200Gb, to read the last part of my defective disk. > > To recover file names try to look here: > http://forums.getdata.com/computer-data-recovery/90-why-cant-recover-filenames.html > > Maybe their program will help. > > as for identifying the file name in the gz file, might be tricky. Usually > the file name appears in the first line (header). So in general cat of the I see that the gzip format indeed contains the original file name in the header. I don't see a way to view this using the gzip/gunzip tools. Maybe I'll have to resort to Perl script for that, I was hoping I'll be able to avoid that. :( > first line or head should do the trick. I did once such a thing on a movie. gz are binary files. No "first line" here. Cheers, --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-requ...@cs.huji.ac.il