I might give dd_rescue a try: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
But I think I can use g4u to copy up to the point of the bad block, which will cover the more awkward stuff such as the partition table, boot sector and win-xp partition, after that I could just boot back into a linux (on the original failing drive) and untar a backup onto the new drive. Some combination of the above will hopefully get me there. I used g4u earlier in the year when a drive was making clink noises (but had no bad blocks). G4u worked really well - make the whole process quite painless. Thanks for creating such a useful tool. Michael On Wednesday 12 July 2006 23:20, Hubert Feyrer wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Michael Hamilton wrote: > > I'm going to replace a drive which has some unreadable sectors, so > > some blocks will be bad - I'd like to just clone the failing drive to > > the replacement and then restore the files with missing blocks. Will > > g4u cope with this? > > > > For example, when tar encounters these bad blocks it seems to just pad > > out with zeroes - which is great. Does g4u do the same? > > I never got around to add back support for "dd conv=noerror", so this > may not work out 100%. > > > - Hubert > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, > security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make > your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based > on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > g4u-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
