> Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> LI Xin wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Recently my hard drive goes bad again, which has a lot of bad sectors >>> for unknown reasons. I am looking for some software that is capable >>> of doing a sector-to-sector copy of the hard drive. >>> >>> I have tried dd but with conv=noerror,sync it would just fill 0's for >>> the whole block size (say, in order to get best speed you will want >>> bs=128k or even larger, but that means that you will lose data when 1 >>> of these 256 sectors is bad). Is there any program that is smarter >>> which do a sector-to-sector copy for these failed blocks and use >>> larger transfer buffer for others? >> >> The src/tools/tools/recoverdisk does exactly that. > > Ah, great, and especially it's available from LiveFS disc as > /usr/sbin/recoverdisk!
If you don't quite like the result, ddrescue (not dd_rescue) is very well-maintained (upstream), and is very fast and smart in comparison to its alternatives. Another good chance to save your data is sadly commercial - SpinRite ($89). _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
