Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:
> Find a way to attach that drive to a functional system. One way would
> be to use a 2.5" portable USB enclosure.
No. from my experience USB will hang if the drive hit a wrong sector.
You should:
- attach the disk to an internal IDE (or sata) cable
- use dd_rescue to copy the image to a file (can be long) (or
gddrescue)
- fsck the copied image.
Do not run fsck on a failing disk, it will make thing worse.
HTH
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Dominique Dumont
"Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they
need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner
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