* Darryl Gregorash <strange.charmed.antiquark@gmail.com> [03-21-19 14:41]:
On 2019-03-21 06:44 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I began yesterday making a full disk copy that is just now 70% thru the first pass, gnu_ddrescue, showing 18 read errors in a 1Tb drive. can I not finish this and then write 00's to the efi partition, /dev/sda1, if it is not recovered and then use efibootmgr to write it anew instead of starting over?
tks, Are you thinking you will be able to do this on the existing drive? You will not; it is giving a non-recoverable, non-relocatable read error somewhere in the EFI partition. I do not think there is any chance you would be able to successfully write to that sector, and even if you could, you would not be able to read from it in the future anyway.
no, on a new drive
You will have to create a new one on a new drive, as described by others, and restore the data drives with the backup you are making.
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