[TriLUG] Linux tools for partition/file retrieval

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Wed, 25 Dec 2019, Matthew Glassman via TriLUG wrote:

> I was thinking of dd from the external to a separate  hard drive a

absolutely, definitely do that and work on the copy.

use ddrescue, incase the disk is bad.

# ddrescue -n source target logfile

then if there are errors

# ddrescue -d -r3 source target logfile

Joe

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