On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:00 -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > My sister-in-law has a 500GB external USB enclosed SATA hard disk. This > has all of her family photos. The disk is failing (bad sectors). Is > there any way to recover as many files as possible?
For future reference, before trying _anything_ with a failed disk, it is best to make a binary copy and work with that instead. Unfortunately, dd isn't very robust when it hits bad sectors. Instead, dd_rescue is a better choice: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ I've never had to deal with this problem personally. A friend, Joseph Hall, had good luck with PhotoRec. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec -- When you tell me I should give proprietary software a fair technical evaluation because its features are so nice, what you are actually doing is saying "Look at the shine on those manacles!" to someone who remembers feeling like a slave. -- Eric S. Raymond /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
