Bad sectors on harddisk (question)

[William Park]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:02:08PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >What is conventional wisdom when you encounter bad sectors on harddisk?
> 
> If the disk is reporting bad spots, it means it's used all the spare 
> sectors and it's not long for this world.  In other words, go get a new 
> drive and copy everything over, while you still can.

How do you recover a file which contains a bad sector?

I haven't been doing backups as frequently as I used to.  And, there is
a file that has 1 month of new data. :-/  I can un-delete a file using
'debugfs'.  But, I haven't come across any utility which will go to work
on a file with a bad sector.  Even partial recovery would be fine.

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