[TriLUG] image of hard drive question

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:21:32 -0500, Bill Farrow said:
> 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.

I don't know about Ultimate Boot CD, but System Rescue CD sure does. I
use it all the time from System Rescue CD.

SteveT