Bad sectors on harddisk (question)

[James Knott]

William Park wrote:
> 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.
> 

I guess you missed that TLUG meeting a couple of months back, about the 
data recovery service.  One point they made, was that they make an image 
of the drive and work with that, so they won't risk damaging it.


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