-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-02-12 11:14, Radule Šoškić wrote:
Various ddrescue (and other *rescue) programs are meant mainly for rescuing deleted or otherwise lost data -- they are very useful in carving artifacts of lost files and try to recover them into whole files. They act as a sort of digital forensic tools.
No, absolutely not. You are confusing tools.
Using them on damaged disks might help but is very likely to make even more damage. If they encounter any I/O errors, they go to a loop of retries, which is OK on a sane disk, but not on a damaged one. On damaged disk you need as little retries as possible. The best is to copy everything that can be copied without retries first and then to repeat copying incomplete files with increased number of retries, etc.
That's precisely what dd_rhelp does.
It might surprise you, but simple xcopy command in Windows might be of good help. Check this link: http://djlab.com/2010/12/windows-ignore-errors-with-xcopy-and-robocopy/
Huh?
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