Re: Probably OT - rescue mode for K3B?

Chris Smart <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:34:36 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.k3b
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Vic <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> disk, dd, ddrescue, and dd_rescue all simply fail with I/O errors. I've
> run out of ideas...

Well, I'm no expert but if dd can't read it then I'm not sure what you
can do seeing as this is at block level. You can tell dd to ignore
errors and to even pad the errors with zeros so as to maintain the
alignment of the file system. Then you could run photorec on that,
maybe.

-c

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