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How long will it take?!
Authored by: electricferret on Mar 07, '05 04:41:24PM

Depending on the number and severity of errors on your disk, absolutely. 30 days might even be optimistic. In reality portions of your disk are probably still good and will read very quickly, but the errors slow the whole process down.

You might want to read the man page for dd, especially the "skip" and "count" options. Instead of reading the whole disk in one pass, you can read parts of the disk into several files and cat them together later. Of course this means you need twice the disk space of the original to reassemble the rescued image in.



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How long will it take?! / Done, but it won't mount!
Authored by: masthugget on Mar 08, '05 01:14:14PM

Just as you said, it was only certain parts of the drive that took that long, the rest went much quicker. It's ready now.

But now to another, more severe?, problem. I cant mount the .dmg file! When I try I get an error message saying that it can't connect to the filesystem (translation from swedish).

Any ideas?



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