Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:30:36 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: delphij@delphij.net, FreeBSD-Chat mailing list <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Program to copy data from a bad disk? Message-ID: <20080405143036.51d7e127@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <47F6C1BD.1090806@delphij.net> References: <47F6C1BD.1090806@delphij.net>
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--Sig_/bnZt5Wg9oL7p6_qdBSACGwt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:03:09 -0700 LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Recently my hard drive goes bad again, which has a lot of bad sectors=20 > for unknown reasons. I am looking for some software that is capable of=20 > doing a sector-to-sector copy of the hard drive. >=20 > I have tried dd but with conv=3Dnoerror,sync it would just fill 0's for=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 larger=20 > transfer buffer for others? recoverdisk(1) (from /sbin) ? --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> itetcu@FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B --Sig_/bnZt5Wg9oL7p6_qdBSACGwt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkf3YuIACgkQBX6fi0k6KXvz8gCgqcocwY6Emt+zOS/Y+DMvILHO UZoAoJU1csCYpOJ4iuh13YTUsQJdw6Uj =Y0H5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/bnZt5Wg9oL7p6_qdBSACGwt--
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