OOPS, I had not read the comments on that page so disregard Question 1
below.  However, having done so also showed another alternative which sounds
good;

   http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

and now I REALLY have to go.

On 11/30/06, Dazed_75 <lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/30/06, Patrick Fleming, EA <plug@rwcinc.net> wrote:
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> > If you are just trying to copy the data from a failing drive to a good
> > drive, dd_rescue is a pretty decent tool. It's on Knoppix, should be on
> > other live cds. dd_rescue works even when dd fails.
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> 1) Having never seen this I wondered if it worked differently than using
> the "noerror" option to dd which makes it not stop on errors. But then I
> presumed dd still writes an output block.  Does anyone know if that is true?
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> 2) I was intriguged so loaded Knoppix 5 to look at it. There was no man
> page, but dd_rescue --help gave enough info to intrigue me.  So I did a web
> search and found http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ which is the
> author's site for it.  I also found http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2004/07/save_your_data_from_the_click.html
> which mentions a front end for dd_rescue that sounds intriging.
> Unfortunately the link in the article does not work, but http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/download/index.en.html
> does work.  NOTE: I have not tried this and have to run out for some
> errands now.  Would love to hear from anyone who HAS tried it.
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