<div dir="ltr"><div>"dd_rescue (or ddrescue)"<br><br></div>dd_rescue and ddrescue are different. dd_rescue is obsolete, don't use it.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Preston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11/12/2015 10:03 AM, H P Ladds wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:55 AM, dev null zero two<br>
</span><span class="">> <<a href="mailto:dev.null.02@gmail.com">dev.null.02@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:dev.null.02@gmail.com">dev.null.02@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> use ddrescue. it can be saved to a file.<br>
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> Am I being paranoid? I want to DD the drive, and then attempt the<br>
> recovery. You you suggest skipping the DD and implement ddrecue<br>
> immediately?<br>
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> Thanks<br>
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</span>dd_rescue (or ddrescue) will image the drive and retry bad sectors<br>
several times to get the data.<br>
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first, grab most of the error-free areas in a hurry:<br>
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ddrescue -n /dev/source /dev/destination rescued.log<br>
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then try to recover as much of the problem areas as possible:<br>
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ddrescue -d -r3 -f /dev/source /dev/destination rescued.log<br>
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*got a message that says "Output file exists..." so used "-f" after the<br>
command to force.<br>
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Good luck!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Preston<br>
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