On 21/04/12 04:51 PM, Bill Harris wrote:
ddrescue is a good alternative when there are physical problems with the disk. However dd is adequate for data corruption cases. With Debian, ddrescue seems to be the dd_rescue program, with the real ddrescue available as gddrescue. Rather than getting into this long explanation, I went for the package that is almost certainly already installed on whatever live CD he boots from.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