[plug] re; bad block on disk

[Chris Hoy Poy]

Hi Jon,

Have you tried a simple liveCD/bootable usb key and then using [cat|dd|netcat|etc] to dump the partition image / drive image?

Something like ddrescure [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue] has brought me luck in the past as well.

//chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "JonL" <jonl711 at hotmail.com>
To: plug at plug.org.au
Sent: Wednesday, 6 June, 2012 9:38:49 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] re; bad block on disk

That is exactly what I want to do, however I guess my question would be
is it possible to copy all the data off of this drive/partition? if I
can get
the bad blocked marked and moved and the drive comes back up I would
move all important files off of it and re-install on a new disk.

Jon

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From: "Leon Wright" <techman83 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:23 AM
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [plug] re; bad block on disk

> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, JonL <jonl711 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Morning all,
>>
>> I have a problem on a drive in my main server and now the server does
>> not boot up. The drive has a bad block and i was wondering if there
>> are any
>> tools I can run to move this block.
>> What I've done so far:
>> I've run reiserfsck to check the drive partition, its a reiserfs file
>> system (reiserfsch -CV /dev/sda2;
>> I've run the SuSE installation and selected repair system to try to
>> fix the
>> drive. I've done all the steps up to step 5 on the following document
>> (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/badblockhowto.html#reiserfs_ex);
>> for some reason it keeps stating that it has a bad starting block.
>
> I tend to go with the theory that if a drive is beginning to show
> errors, it's not worth trying to repair it as it will die properly in
> the not too distant future. Get a new disk, re-install and move your
> files across. That would be my advice regardless of platform.
>
> Leon
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