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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). > This list has taken about 6 hours to generate, so running find again > with alternative arguments isn't an option. > > Ideas anyone? Have you thought about using the file/filesystem recovery tools in "the penguin sleuthkit" (or 'the coroners toolkit")? Cheers. Grant. -- 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