Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:11:39 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying a disk with ignoring errors Message-ID: <4B4C3CCB.4000101@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <4B44602C.9070507@kukulies.org> References: <4B434D52.3030301@kukulies.org> <20100106023007.b3a19517.freebsd@edvax.de> <201001060243.o062h4JS072008@lava.sentex.ca> <4B44602C.9070507@kukulies.org>
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Allow me to continue this thread with a question about a method to erase a disk that has bad sectors. I bought a 1TB hard disk and will do the recoverdisk job soon. Then the disk, a Seagate which is still under warranty until 2013 as my local distributor told me, will go back and hopefully I'll be getting a replacement in a few weeks. But before I'll giv back that disk I would like to erase the disk thoroughly. Now, is the a way to do that in the opposite direction? Would dd noerror do that? Christoph Kukulies schrieb: > Thanks to all. > > recoverdisk > > was the one, indeed. phk was the original author. And that was the one > that already helped me once. > Maybe I could have searched the archives also and would have been > able to find that previous message a couple of years ago. > > I also found by searching archives, that ffsrecov, now ffs2recov, > might be a tool for partially recovering a disk. > > -- > Christoph > > Mike Tancsa schrieb: >> At 08:30 PM 1/5/2010, Polytropon wrote: >>> recoverdisk >> >> This one worked for me to recover my mum's borked Windows XP HD. It >> was able to recover enough, that I only needed to find one missing >> dll. Prior to that, it wouldnt even boot up getting stuck on the >> failing parts of the disk. >> >> ---Mike >>
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