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10.4: Recover a dead hard drive using GNU ddrescue
Just wanted to add a note here: This also works well with floppies. I finally decided to image all of my floppies and then throw the floppies away, given that most of the media is over a decade old. It went pretty well using Disk Utility's disk image creation, but where a disk had a bad sector on it, DU refused to do anything with it. This ddrescue program did a nice job of preparing me to use DiskWarrior to repair.
I still have only DiskWarrior 3.03, on a PPC machine, and there are some issues with the preview mode, but I've found that if Classic is running, DW seems to work. Who knows why, maybe it's just superstition, but I don't think it is entirely.
Anyway, I did the following, in the terminal:
10.4: Recover a dead hard drive using GNU ddrescue
Let me just add one thing: The reason I didn't use DW on the floppy directly is because it flipped out in various ways, spontaneously unmounting things causing the Finder to complain about unorthodox device removal. I did try that first. What I like about this recipe is that it gets as much off the disk as the drive is capable of and then I can play around with whatever recovery tools I want on the image. |
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