<p dir="ltr">Ddrescue runs dd in a rescue mode. It scavenges every block off the drive it can. Even if it's been marked as unusable by the drive. It's good to use if you have missing files on a failed drive. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 12, 2015 11:07 AM, "H P Ladds" <<a href="mailto:householdwords@gmail.com">householdwords@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:55 AM, dev null zero two <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dev.null.02@gmail.com" target="_blank">dev.null.02@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">use ddrescue. it can be saved to a file. </p></blockquote>Am I being paranoid? I want to DD the drive, and then attempt the recovery. You you suggest skipping the DD and implement ddrecue immediately? <br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div>
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