[TriLUG] OT: Laptop Hard Drive

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, David Burton wrote:

> ddrescue will never recover part of a sector.  SpinRite will do that, but
> ddrescue either recovers a sector or it doesn't, nothing in-between.

if sector 0,1 and 3 are OK, but sector 2 is not, what does 
ddrescue do on the target piece of disk? write 0,1, then hop 
over 2 leaving whatever junk was there and then write 3?

Joe

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