Disk Recovery suggestions welcomed...

[lug at the-leveys.us (Don Levey)]

dsr wrote:

>
> Get a 60GB or larger drive, make a partition on it the same size
> or slightly larger than hda3, and copy the original partition over to
> it directly:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hdd1
>
> -dsr-

Set this all up and just tried it.  Interestingly, I got an I/O error
reading the source disk.  Feh.  I would have thought this would access the
individual sectors regardless.  So... the partition is gone?  I need to try
testdisk again; I got "unrecoverable errors" but the other partitions on
that drive were mounted at the time.  Looks like a good time for a complete
overhaul, I guess.
 -Don