Jacques B. wrote:
I neglected to mention. If your original drive has problems (i.e.
bad/failing sectors), you may want to look at an alternative such as
ddrescue (
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/). I have
successfully used ddrescue to recover a dead floppy on two different
occasions. Of course it can do the same for a hard drive.
Again, run from a live CD environment so find a live CD which has it
installed, or install it in the live environment after booting up
(either by getting it online, or downloading it to a flash drive first
and then booting to your live CD, mounting the thumb drive and
installing ddrescue from it).
Jacques B.
You can also get it by running yum install dd_rescue.
Mikkel
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