Disk Recovery suggestions welcomed...

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

discuss-bounces at blu.org wrote:
> 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
> _______________________________________________
Spoke too soon, it looks like it's moving now.  I tried:
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/udev/sda2 conv=noerror,sync
Only time will tell, of course, so we'll see what I can recover.
 -Don