Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?

[Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com>]

Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com> writes:

> On 21/04/12 11:22 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

>> Is there  another rescue software ??

> Firstly, copy the entire disk to another one of the same or larger
> size by booting from a live distro such as sysrecuecd and using dd
> (e.g. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb).

Check out ddrescue as a replacement for dd, too.  I've had luck with it
when some files were partially corrupted, but it's been years since I
used it.

Bill