<p dir="ltr">use ddrescue. it can be saved to a file. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 12, 2015 10:48 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"><div><div><div><div><div>I have an external hard drive failing and hope to DD the drive to a new external hard drive.<br><br></div>Should I reformat the new drive to ext3 (or ext4) before DDing?<br><br></div>The failing drive has two 500 gig partitions (I believe ext3). Should I DD the partitions separately or DD the entire drive? <br><br></div>After DDing I'll try to retrieve the data. Oh and it is all data, no OS.<br><br></div>TIA,<br></div>Preston<br></div>
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