On Monday 20 February 2006 13:00, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 11 February 2006 19:39, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > 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. > > Does the new drive need preparation of any kind, formatting, for instance? > > I've looked at both man page and info page for dd, but both assume that you > know what you are doing. > Oops - refreshing my memory of what went before, I presume the setup is Drive a - has running linux system Drive b - is damaged drive Drive c - is new drive Drive b and c are identified by fdisk, and should not be mounted. Is that right? Anne
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