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Slows transfers and unmountable images
Authored by: snowleo on Jul 19, '06 12:07:44PM

With block size at 512 and using sync, I was getting 0.5mb an hour - ie 20 days to recover a 250gb drive. Block size at 51200 and without the sync option will yield a more reasonable 12h to copy off the defunct drive.

After creating the dmg (which was from a linux not a mac drive), I did find the resultant file unmountable. FileSalvage (from subrosasoft.com) for $79 was able to scan the disk image and recreate the file list.... unfortunately with all the filenames missing :). It does at least sort by file type so you can sort of narrow the window for the file(s) you are looking to recover if you have experienced the same level of drive damage.

Thanks for the advice on dd. Hope the above helps re slow copies and unmountable results



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