From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 6 10:04:57 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 919B8106568F for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:04:57 +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 2ACB38FC08 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:04:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.79.34.228] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [172.27.4.215]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6741868; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:04:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4B44602C.9070507@kukulies.org> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:04:28 +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> In-Reply-To: <201001060243.o062h4JS072008@lava.sentex.ca> 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: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:04:57 -0000 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 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net > Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net > Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike >