| How we salvaged the Web site from a failing HD |
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| Written by Luther Pollok | ||||||||||
| Sunday, 26 February 2006 | ||||||||||
Page 2 of 8 If any of you are familar with a bootable Linux distribution named Knoppix, one of the packages that comes installed on that CD is an application named dd_rescue. The original applcation that dd_rescue is based on is called dd. This is a low level sector by sector copy application most often used to copy boot sectors from one place to another. (Making a bootable floppie manually for creating bootable USB memory stick or example) dd_rescue takes dd a step further in that with dd, once the hard drive times out trying to read a sector, dd will dump you out and return you to a prompt and fail to copy what you needed. Whereas dd_rescue is designed to continue on by skipping those sectors that the hard drive fails to read. dd_rescue was written as a data recovery tool with failing hard drives specifically in mind. As much as I love the application Spinrite as a data recovery tool. I did not have a version that could work on a 80Gig hard drive, let alone on a SATA drive. I was also concerned that I did not have enough experiance that Spinrite to know what it might do with EXT3 formatted partition and thus that my data would come out the other end intact. |
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