On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:58, Cookie-Monster wrote: > Hi, > > >> If you can I'd consider getting an image of the drive. It may help with > >> data recovery later. something like: > >> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/bigfilesystem/diskimage > > > That does not work on bad hard drives, resulting image would be almost useless. > > BTW, this way it stops on first read error. > > I made an image of the disk. It's 3GB. Can I do anything with this > thing now? i.e.: formatting the HDD and putting the image back on it. > Then there would be no unreadable blocks anymore.
I would keep the original disk in its current state until you get all the data back you can. If you think you've got a good copy, take the original out of the machine and put it somewhere safe. I'd start by running the copy through the latest version of reiserfsck. -chris
