DD not working--SUCCESS!

Fri Aug 31 15:22:41 UTC 2007

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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