From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 17:51:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20824 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:51:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20686 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:51:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00891; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:51:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Stephen A. Derdau" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Stephen A. Derdau wrote: > I have a bad section of a hard drive that fsck does not fix. > I would like to copy over the info from the first drive to a 2nd drive. > Or maybe just copy over the necessary files to get my system back > to where it was before the low level format I will be doing. If bad sectors are poking through that is Very Bad. What type of disk is this? Most have automatic bad sector remapping; if it won't remap then your bad list may be full and more errors are soon to come. > Any suggestions as to the easiest way this can be done? If you can mount the FS, just avoid the bad spot and copy from one disk to another. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message