dd_rescue for copying hard drives with bad sectors

[tollhaus]

I am in the process of using DD_rescue to copy anything left on a hard drive that crashed to a new hard drive that I bought. I've got it running alright, but I'm wondering about the next step:

If/when anything copies to the new hard drive, how do I get it off of this new hard drive. The only thing I really need are some pictures that were on the old one when it crashed.

Needless to say, I am very new to Linux. I have a coworker who is willing to help with specifics, but does not have time to do the research. He helped me get it running after I showed him this forum and is loaning me his copy of knoppix.

[krishna.murphy]

I am in the process of using DD_rescue to copy anything left on a hard drive that crashed to a new hard drive that I bought. I've got it running alright, but I'm wondering about the next step:

If/when anything copies to the new hard drive, how do I get it off of this new hard drive. The only thing I really need are some pictures that were on the old one when it crashed.

Needless to say, I am very new to Linux. I have a coworker who is willing to help with specifics, but does not have time to do the research. He helped me get it running after I showed him this forum and is loaning me his copy of knoppix.

It sounds like you need to check out the man-page for dd_rescue - just open LX-terminal (little black tv-screen icon on lower left) and type:

man dd_rescue

Or, you can search the web for the same string. Basically, you can limit how much gets copied in the first place; if you need to get rid of anything afterwards you can use PCman (file-folder icon next to the LXterm icon) or

rm -rf /the/path/and/name-to-delete

in the terminal window.

Cheers!
Krishna

[kl522]

I did not have to use dd_rescue until I have a crashed hard disk.

Then I start reading about dd_rescue. But it's confusing because there is another program call ddrescue around. The one included in Knoppix is dd_rescue, while some of the docs in the net talks about ddrescue ( the GNU version of dd rescue ). The ddrescue Debian package is called gddrescue, but the program name is ddrescue.

I would actually recommend to use ddrescue instead of dd_rescue. 'ddrescue' with a log file makes it interruptable and resumable. And if there are bad sectors, it can retry the bad sectors at some other time when you cool off the hard drive or if you take it out from the freezer.