On 06/12/2015 12:45 AM, Peter Viskup wrote:
Always consider using ddrescue [1] instead of dd - especially once you are not sure about the state of the drive. Tool ddrescue is taking 'dd' image of the drive, but will skip all the areas where the read will return an error. Standard 'dd' will try to continuously re-read that area which could cause more damages.
Yes, that sounds like just the tool for the job! :-) David