Re: External hard drives x 2

Thanks everybody for helpful advice.

Things have been hectic and I am just getting breathing space now.

i will apply your advice....

cheers
W

On 08/01/14 12:18, Robin Sheat wrote:
> Reece Arnott schreef op di 07-01-2014 om 19:53 [+1300]:
>> BTW, dd is primarily for getting an exact copy of a functioning drive 
>> and is probably not the tool to use when transferring data from a 
>> failing drive, particularly a large one, using the /dev addressing. 
>> ddrescue is better at handling the failing part but if you use
>> the /dev 
> 
> In my experience, the best and most reliable thing to do to a failing
> drive is to run ddrescue right now, extract everything you can, and then
> do recovery on the image you've created.
> 
> Having to have the heads go back and forth seeking all over the disk is
> a recipe for things going slow and wrong.
> 
> I had a friend's HD that would barely mount, but when I just grabbed the
> image, there were only two read errors on the whole thing and all the
> data came back fine when I loopback mounted the image.
> 
> Robin.
> 
> 
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