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Grant Sewell wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 00:24 +0000, Simon Williams wrote: >> Arrghh. >> >> I have attached a broken hard disk which I'm trying to get files off. >> >> Also, if anyone knows how to tell dd to write zeros or something in >> place of bad data and move on that would also be good (I tried >> conv=noerror, but it never gives up, once it finds a bad block it keeps >> trying to read that block forever). > > There are a number of 'alternative' dd tools around - one of the ones I > have used before now is "ddrescue" (should be in Debian). I wish I'd known about that earlier! ddrescue is amazing! One more question- if I do ddrescue /dev/hdc /mnt/usb/rescued.img and the HDD is 40Gb, but only has 18Gb used, will rescued.img take up 18Gb or 40Gb? Thanks Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html