Hi, On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, at 16:46, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote: > Presently I'm again in the situation to have to recover a hard disk that > has a Windows NTFS on it, refused to > boot Windows 7 and has a lot of I/O-Errors. sounds like ddrescue in ports/sysutils will do what you want -- John tech-lists at zyxst.net