OT Rescue CDs/DVDs

[William Muriithi]

Ivan,

On 4 June 2011 10:31, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> All of them, man mount
>
> mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /home/me/directory
>
> will mount the ntfs filesystem located on the third partition of the
> disk in the users dirctory, which they have created for that purpose.
Will work if the hard disk is not too badly damaged.  If lot of
sectors are bad, it will take forever to ever backup
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Ivan Avery Frey
> <ivan.avery.frey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> What would be a good linux rescue CD/DVD for getting data off a Vista
>> (it's not my machine) partition off a failing hard drive.
If its not usable easily in mounted state, you may try this.  It also
help by minimizing the damage of the failing disk buy avoiding reading
from failed sectors.

dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 conv=sync,noerror

Investigate if you need to create similar size partition on the backup
drive as I have not done it yet, but that would be my preferred
approach if I was in your shoes.  Someone here may even enlighten us
on that and save you experimenting on a weak drive
>>
 Ivan.
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