<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:29 PM, /sbin/Southen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:southen@gmail.com" target="_blank">southen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span class="il">dd</span> is in my experience completely useless for recovery purposes, if<br>
your distro lacks ddrescue grab SystemRescueCd.<br>
<br>
As suggested, find a destination partition/drive (with twice the<br>
needed space) and run:<br>
ddrescue -n /dev/sdb1 /mnt/recover/sdb1 /mnt/recover/sdb1.logfile<br>
ddrescue -d -r3 /mnt/recover/sdb1 /mnt/recover/sdb1.logfile<br>
(where /dev/sdb1 is the partition or drive to rescue, and /mnt/recover<br>
is a nice large partition)</blockquote></div><br><div>Sorry to drag up an old thread. But I had to say a thankyou for this tid bit of information. Very handy and works really well.</div><div><br></div><div>My colleague recovered a friends 500GB drive and I just recovered a floppy disk! </div>
<div><br></div><div>Leon</div>