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From: Cookie-Monster <cookie.monster@starfall.de>
Subject: Re[2]: Problem with my HDD
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:58:24 +0200
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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.

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