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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: samoir on Apr 23, '08 03:11:09PM

I found this hint to be extremely useful.

I used dd to successfully recover a failed 20GB ATA drive which had Windows XP as the filesystem. The drive wouldn't show after many attempts with the BIOS / Drive settings on the Windows PC. Using Apple's Disk Utility under Mac OS X 10.1 i could see the drive, but it wouldn't mount. I followed the hint above, as specified, using the default block-size as 512, and got 10GB throughput/per hour, which left me with a recovery.dmg after approx 2.25 hours (admittedly, and thankfully, a smaller drive).

For some reason the recovery.dmg wouldn't mount, (most likely something to do with me recently installing an old OS X 10.1 without applying any software updates) but copying this to my Mac Pro (OS X 10.5.2) the image mounted straight away, and i could backup the entire HDD, with huge success.

Thanks for an informative, and useful hint, that netted a great result using the command line. Cheers.



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