[TriLUG] Suggestions wanted for Linux laptop

[David Burton]

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:11 PM, David Burton <ncdave4life at gmail.com> wrote:

> If the drive is failing (did you test it? w/ Drive Fitness Test?), then
> copy it with ddrescue instead of dd.  dd will die when it hits a bad block.
>  ddrescue will try hard to copy as much as possible.
>
>
If your machine is too sick to boot Linux, or if you don't have ddrescue
installed, you can just boot a Parted Magic <http://partedmagic.com> live
CD.  It has ddrescue pre-installed.