Program to copy data from a bad disk?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:03:09 -0700
LI Xin <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Recently my hard drive goes bad again, which has a lot of bad sectors 
> for unknown reasons.  I am looking for some software that is capable of 
> doing a sector-to-sector copy of the hard drive.
> 
> I have tried dd but with conv=noerror,sync it would just fill 0's for 
> the whole block size (say, in order to get best speed you will want 
> bs=128k or even larger, but that means that you will lose data  when 1 
> of these 256 sectors is bad).  Is there any program that is smarter 
> which do a sector-to-sector copy for these failed blocks and use larger 
> transfer buffer for others?

recoverdisk(1) (from /sbin) ?

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