Re: Problem with my HDD

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:09:09AM +0200, Anders Widman 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
> I've  heard  of  something  called  dd_rescue,  but  "dd  if=/dev/sda1
> of=/path/image  conv=sync,noerror"  should  do the trick. The sync and

Our attempts show that dd (even with conv=sync,noerror,notrunc) does not
help and produces broken images, where no data inserted in image for sectors
that cannot be read.

dd_rescue is shipped with SuSE.
Also it can be obtained from here:
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

> noerror   causes  the disk-copy to continue when there are read errors
> and  fill in with blanks instead. If you don't do this you will end up

No, for some reason it does not fills the blanks.
At least for us.

> with  offset  errors  -  the  image  will be shorter than the original
> drive, and it would be impossible to fix.

This is also not true, it will be possible to fix, but that would be
more expensive ;)

Bye,
    Oleg