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

[Lowell Gilbert]

Matt Navarre <mnavarre at cox.net> writes:

> 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/

Just out of interest: how is that different than "dd conv=noerror"?