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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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On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:03:09 -0700
LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net> wrote:

> Hi,
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> 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.
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> 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=
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> 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) ?

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