[Cialug] Dying commputer question

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Apr 19, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Todd Walton wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:07 PM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm guessing from context that this vital data did not have a backup?
>
> No...
>
>> 1) Use dd to attempt a bit-by-bit copy of the drive's partitions to a
>> known working drive.
>
> Not ddrescue?

If you've got it installed, ddresuce would be fine, and has  
appropriate default settings for this task. But dd is installed  
everywhere and with the 'conv=noerror' setting should work just a well.

	Zach
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