iisjman07
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Seems like this script could prove quite useful for data recovery on drives with bad blocks:
http://vaab.free.fr/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html
dd_rhelp is a bash script that handles a very usefull program written in C by
Kurt Garloff which is called dd_rescue, it roughly act as the dd linux command
with the caracteristic to NOT stop when it falls on read/write errors.
But using it is quite time consuming. This is where dd_rhelp come to help
In short, it'll use dd_rescue on your entire disc, but will try to gather the
maximum valid data before trying for ages on badsectors. So if you leave
dd_rhelp work for infinite time, it'll have the same effect as a simple
dd_rescue. But because you might not have this infinite time (this could
indeed take really long in some cases... ), dd_rhelp will jump over bad
sectors and rescue valid data. In the long run, it'll parse all your device
with dd_rescue.
You can Ctrl-C it whenever you want, and rerun-it at will, it'll resume it's
job as it depends on the log files dd_rescue creates.
In addition, progress will be shown in a ASCII picture of your device beeing
rescued.
http://vaab.free.fr/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html