[ale] NTFSclone, and disk errors.

[Brandon Checketts]

If you have a bad spot on the disk, I'd recommend using GNU ddrescue to make a
copy of the physical drive before doing anything else. ddrescue does a pretty
good job of getting as much data from the failing disk as possible.

Good luck,
Brandon Checketts


david w. millians wrote:
> I'm trying to dupe a disk with ntfsclone onto a bigger hard drive. (Via 
> CloneZilla or SystemRescueCD/Gparted, but same core issue.)
> 
> When it reaches a particular spot, it crashes. It does this even with 
> the '-rescue' tag on. So fine; run a program, scan the disk, have it 
> mark the sector bad, and have ntfsclone ignore it.
> 
> Would that it were this simple. chkdsk doesn't do it right, the disk 
> checker from fujitsu doesn't do it right. What is there out there that 
> will do this the right way so that ntfsclone will do its magic?
> 
> Thanks,
> David
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