KS wrote: > keith wrote: > > I'm trying to recover data off a dying hard disk (2.5" Hitachi 320GB > > HDD). I was able to get the first two partitions without errors. The > > third (system partition) started off OK but after doing about 44GB, I > > get the following in logs: > > Maybe try gddrescue, seems to work better. I will second keith's suggestion to use gddrescue which has somewhat improved behavior and might work better. I pretty much have switched to using it whenever I need to do this. > It is a netbook HDD that is dying(or died) that I'm trying to get data > from. Also, because I don't have any media to reinstall the Win7 which Take it as an omen. This might be the opportune time to ween yourself from it. :-) > came with it, I copied the first two partitions, one of which had the > installation partition. However, I don't know how to exactly replicate > the partition table in the new hard drive. Any suggestions? Partition the new drive with the same sized partition as the previous rescue partition. I like using sfdisk for this purpose. sfdisk -d /dev/sda > sda.partitions # dumps partition table Then you can clone the old partitions onto the new disk this way: sfdisk /dev/sdX < sda.partitions # writes /dev/sda partition table Where /dev/sd'X' is the new drive you wish to partition. You will need to write the file sda.partitions and copy it to wherever you are restoring the data onto the new drive. But that will be different depending upon your environment. I don't know if you have them on different machines or what. I am sure you can scramble and figure that part out. If both drives are on the same machine then you can pipe from one to the other. Be careful that you identify the drive you are writing to correctly. sfdisk -d /dev/sdX | sfdisk /dev/sdY Then restore by using dd or other program to copy your backed up image of the restore partition to it. Choose another block size if you like but 64k has traditionally been the best performing size for me. dd if=sda1.image of=/dev/sdY1 bs=16k Then the trick is to boot to that recovery partition. For that task I like using the super grub boot disk to boot the system. (But there are many different ways to do this. You might be able to copy the MBR directly with dd if=/dev/sdX of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 and then on to your new disk but not sure because I have always used the system tools to recreated it.) Then you should be able to use your system restore tools to restore the system to the factory image. http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/ Bob
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