[BBLISA] Data recovery help request

[Kevin L. Mitchell]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 15:15 -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I used dd to try and preserve the partitions; one of the unknowns was fine, the 
> other gave me a disk i/o error immediately and stopped; the ntfs one got much 
> of the way through but also gave a disk i/o error.   I didn't bother with the 
> tiny Novell one.

There's an alternate version of dd called ddrescue which is supposed to
be suitable for this purpose.  The URL I have for it is:

  http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

I've never tried it, so caveat emptor...
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch at mit.edu>
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