Disk problems - hard error reading fsbn NNNNNNNN (Bullet dodged)

[Matt Navarre]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Matt Navarre <mnavarre at cox.net> writes:
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>>Now, on to the damaged sectors, how to recover the data? dd stops when
>>it hits bad blocks, so we can't use that to copy the slice. same with
>>dump(8) as far as I can tell. So. Download dd_rescue from
>>http://www.garlof.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
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>Just out of interest: how is that different than "dd conv=noerror"?
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Huh, you learn something new every day. Actually dd_rescue looks closer 
to dd conv=noerror,sync since it replaces input errors with NULs. 

Anyway dd_rescue worked for me, tho I suspect that dd would have worked 
also, if I'd read the manpage closer. But, hey, Bad Disk + No Backups = 
Major Freakout Mode.