[TriLUG] One thing led to another and killed my Samsung Ultrabook running Linux Mint.

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Thu, 21 May 2015, David Burton wrote:

> Yeah, the first thing I'd do is boot a "live" distro from CD or thumbdrive,
> and use it to clone the HDD to a backup drive, or at least backup your
> important files.
>
> However, I'd use ddrescue

+1

(when I say dd I mean ddrescue, but the original poster doesn't know know that.
He should do ddrescue before he runs smartctl too, incase the disk is dying.)

Joe


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