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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: deanburchell on Oct 20, '05 12:47:11PM

I'm such a newbie when it comes to using the CLI. Somehow I managed to download and compile dd_rescue and dd_rhelp. I even got it running. Unfortunately, it's stalling out after just 350MB of a 150GB (17GB used) drive. Should I assume that if the progress stats aren't changing that there is an irrecoverable problem with the drive and that the process has 'crashed' or should I let it continue? Please help, I was trying to save someone's data from a motherboard defective iBook and somehow the firewire drive I transfered their 'life' to is suddenly unusable. I thought the dd process was the solution as the 3rd party drive tools all failed. (In very much the same way).



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