You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad blocks.
On Jul 22, 2011 10:14 PM, "Simon Males" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Slug,
>
> I'm trying to save a failing NTFS hard drive. It manages to mount and
> during copying the following error will appear in dmesg:
>
> Buffer I/O error on device sdc3, logical block 786433
>
> I don't mind corrupting some files. Can I instruct badblocks to add
> the failings blocks to the bad block register (I'm assuming that's how
> badblocks/hard drives work).
>
> Thus whilst copying, I will not get any block errors.
>
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