On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 05:03:09PM -0700, 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?
I don't know how it works, but did you try src/tools/tools/recoverdisk ?
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
pgp6fUGzf9Enu.pgp
Description: PGP signature
