From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cookie-Monster Subject: Re[2]: Problem with my HDD Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:35:52 +0200 Message-ID: <261301681.20020530133552@starfall.de> References: <10512850437.20020529194929@starfall.de> <20020530091410.B3922@namesys.com> Reply-To: Cookie-Monster Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: In-Reply-To: <20020530091410.B3922@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >> 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. If it stops at the first read error, can I put this image back onto the formatted disk, so I have left the working blocks? -- Cookie-Monster cookie.monster@starfall.de http://www.starfall.de/