Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:27:10 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: FreeBSD-Chat mailing list <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Program to copy data from a bad disk? Message-ID: <20080406202709.GA28511@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <47F6C1BD.1090806@delphij.net> References: <47F6C1BD.1090806@delphij.net>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 05:03:09PM -0700, LI Xin wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Recently my hard drive goes bad again, which has a lot of bad sectors for= =20 > unknown reasons. I am looking for some software that is capable of doing= a=20 > sector-to-sector copy of the hard drive. >=20 > I have tried dd but with conv=3Dnoerror,sync it would just fill 0's for t= he=20 > whole block size (say, in order to get best speed you will want bs=3D128k= or=20 > even larger, but that means that you will lose data when 1 of these 256= =20 > sectors is bad). Is there any program that is smarter which do a=20 > sector-to-sector copy for these failed blocks and use larger transfer=20 > buffer for others? recoverdisk(1). -- Brooks --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFH+TIdXY6L6fI4GtQRAsaFAJ9iMmBDN6C5JUVTj1Yl4uCSfS30bACfdG9x bK307E5WIegudEC3QDutcfs= =/YIJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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