From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 12 09:12:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52A01065670 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:12:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7282F8FC08 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:12:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [134.61.4.247] (account kuku@kukulies.org [134.61.4.247] verified) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6744973; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:11:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4B4C3CCB.4000101@kukulies.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:11:39 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa References: <4B434D52.3030301@kukulies.org> <20100106023007.b3a19517.freebsd@edvax.de> <201001060243.o062h4JS072008@lava.sentex.ca> <4B44602C.9070507@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <4B44602C.9070507@kukulies.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:12:15 -0000 Allow me to continue this thread with a question about a method to erase a disk that has bad sectors. I bought a 1TB hard disk and will do the recoverdisk job soon. Then the disk, a Seagate which is still under warranty until 2013 as my local distributor told me, will go back and hopefully I'll be getting a replacement in a few weeks. But before I'll giv back that disk I would like to erase the disk thoroughly. Now, is the a way to do that in the opposite direction? Would dd noerror do that? Christoph Kukulies schrieb: > Thanks to all. > > recoverdisk > > was the one, indeed. phk was the original author. And that was the one > that already helped me once. > Maybe I could have searched the archives also and would have been > able to find that previous message a couple of years ago. > > I also found by searching archives, that ffsrecov, now ffs2recov, > might be a tool for partially recovering a disk. > > -- > Christoph > > Mike Tancsa schrieb: >> At 08:30 PM 1/5/2010, Polytropon wrote: >>> recoverdisk >> >> This one worked for me to recover my mum's borked Windows XP HD. It >> was able to recover enough, that I only needed to find one missing >> dll. Prior to that, it wouldnt even boot up getting stuck on the >> failing parts of the disk. >> >> ---Mike >>