If your bad sectors are local to a particular area of the disk, you could read sections starting at the end, and moving towards the beginning after each section is completed.
Later you would concatenate the sections that were recoverable. Give either iseek=n or skip=n to dd to skip over a portion of the disk. Also download, burn and boot off the SystemRescueCd - it has a lot of tools for this sort of thing: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha [email protected] http://www.dulcineatech.com Dulcinea Technologies: Software of Elegance and Beauty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
