From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Problem with my HDD
Date: 30 May 2002 09:39:01 -0400
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On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:58, Cookie-Monster wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> If you can I'd consider getting an image of the drive.  It may help with 
> >> data recovery later.  something like:
> >> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/bigfilesystem/diskimage
> 
> > That does not work on bad hard drives, resulting image would be almost useless.
> > BTW, this way it stops on first read error.
> 
> I made an image of the disk. It's 3GB. Can I do anything with this
> thing now? i.e.: formatting the HDD and putting the image back on it.
> Then there would be no unreadable blocks anymore.

I would keep the original disk in its current state until you get all
the data back you can.  If you think you've got a good copy, take the
original out of the machine and put it somewhere safe.

I'd start by running the copy through the latest version of reiserfsck.

-chris