It seems like I remember this same discussion a few years ago. From that discussion, I seem to remember that dd will cause problems if there are bad sectors on either the new or old media.

Stephen Ward wrote:
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What I've come up with is to use the dd command to rip the raw data off the
drive and save it to a file.
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Thanks,
Stephen


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Jeff

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