Anne Wilson wrote: > 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 > That is right. You do not need any formatting/partitioning on the target drive when you are duplicating the entire drive. Everything that is readable on the old drive will be copied to the new drive. If I remember correctly, with the conv=noerror, it does a zero-fill of unreadable blocks. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
