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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:11:04 -0700
From:      LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        d@delphij.net, FreeBSD-Chat mailing list <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Program to copy data from a bad disk?
Message-ID:  <47F6D1A8.7080203@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <47F6C564.1070500@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <47F6C1BD.1090806@delphij.net> <47F6C564.1070500@FreeBSD.org>

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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> LI Xin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently my hard drive goes bad again, which has a lot of bad sectors =

>> for unknown reasons.  I am looking for some software that is capable=20
>> of doing a sector-to-sector copy of the hard drive.
>>
>> I have tried dd but with conv=3Dnoerror,sync it would just fill 0's fo=
r=20
>> the whole block size (say, in order to get best speed you will want=20
>> bs=3D128k or even larger, but that means that you will lose data  when=
 1=20
>> of these 256 sectors is bad).  Is there any program that is smarter=20
>> which do a sector-to-sector copy for these failed blocks and use=20
>> larger transfer buffer for others?
>=20
> The src/tools/tools/recoverdisk does exactly that.

Ah, great, and especially it's available from LiveFS disc as=20
/usr/sbin/recoverdisk!

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!


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