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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with my HDD
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:14:10 +0400
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To: Robert Brockway <robert@timetraveller.org>
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Hello!

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:45:50AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:

> 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.

Bye,
    Oleg