On Saturday 11 February 2006 19:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Ah well, from what I've seen I think specialist help would be able to > > recover the data, but at great expense. I think the guy who has lost his > > data will just have to do his work all over again. There's another one > > who has learned the true value of regular backups <g> > > > > Anne > > If you are not going to use a specialist, there is one thing you can > try if you have another drive of the same type, or possible a larger > drive. You can use dd with the conv=noerror option to copy the > drive, and then use testdisk on the copy to recover things. The > noerror option will let dd continue after the unreadable block. > > If you are fairly sure that the error is only on the first sector, > you you use seek=1 and skip=1 to bypass coping the first block. > (You have to use both, or the output will be offset 1 block.) > I did wonder if dd would do it. I don't have a spare drive big enough, so I'll ask whether the owner is willing to buy one. Thanks for the suggestion. If he goes down that road I may be asking for more help. Anne
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