[TriLUG] image of hard drive question

[David Burton]

I totally agree about ddrescue, Bill! I often use it from Parted Magic CD.
I didn't realize that UBCD now includes it.

The author of GNU ddrescue <http://freecode.com/projects/addrescue>,
Antonio Diaz, is a great guy. Back in early 2005, when he created version
1.0, he basically rewrote the whole thing to my specs!

Versions 1.0 and later of ddrescue use ASCII log files (which I've written
many little Perl tools to analyze and manipulate), and it can be stopped
and restarted at any point. If the computer crashes during the recovery
process, it's no problem: ddrescue flushes its status to its logfile often
enough that you can always restart with little loss of recovered data.

Here's a better ddrescue link:
http://freecode.com/projects/addrescue

Dave


On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Personal favorite:     www.ultimatebootcd.com
>
> Does the UltimateBootCD have my favorite hard drive data recovery tool
> "gnu ddrescue" ?
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
>
> I use ddrescue to salvage data from a dying hard drive. It does a
> great job with bad blocks on the drive, re-reading them several times
> in order to extract every last byte from a failing block.
>
> Bill
>