On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Michael Schierl <[email protected]> wrote: > When you have cloned a dying hard disk with ddrescue (and were able to > only copy a fraction of the information) your first choice should not be > CHKDSK. CHKDSK primarily tries to restore the filesystem into a > consistent state, which means that directories that are only partially > readable will be completely lost completely afterwards - not very good > if you try to rescue data.
yikes! I had no idea. thank you for the correction. > Note that cloning from a failing drive can take a long time (hours to > days), cloning the healthy clone afterwards is much faster. curious about ddrescue, I'm reading the wiki page now: http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue does ddrescue want to copy data to a hard drive of the same size? I seem to recall running into this issue with free imaging tools in the past. if not, it seems like ddrescue + netcat would make an awesome free alternative to ghost. -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
