and Spinrite to recover data on the bad sectors...
Both are a MUST for computer techies
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I totally agree with you about the GNU ddrescue.........It's my preferred app for raw data copying from a faulty disk.....JimCockfield wrote:...Much faster - no need for helper programs like dd_rhelp (it does a lot of stuff like automatic changing of block sizes when errors are encountered and more -- with no helper programs needed):
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
This is the program in the dotpup you mentioned (dd_rescue). It's much slower. I gave up on it after running it for 4 days straight trying to get a crashed drive copied (and it was only a small way into it when I quit):
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
My advise to anyone that has a badly damaged drive with loads of bad sectors... Forget any other solution (Acronis True Image, partimage, dd, Gparted, HDClone, g4l, PC Inspector Clone Maxx0, XXCopy, EaseUS Disk Copy, CopyR.dma, CopyWipe, dd_rescue).
Find a way to run ddrescue instead. It's the "cream of the crop" from my experience trying to get data back from a crashed drive (in my case, it was impact damage while it was being written to). Now, ddrescue alone didn't solve my problems (since a lot of the sectors were bad and that corrupted a lot of files).
But, I was able to get the files I needed back after running other utilities against the new drive after the copy was completed.
Remind me to backup more often.
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rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
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timeout 30
title Muppy 007
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/muppy007/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PMODE=idehd
initrd (hd0,0)/muppy007/initrd.gz