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Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue
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Mar 15, 202641057 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Somewhere on the internets I read that gddrescue is superior to dd at least in terms of being able to distinguish between the amount of disk reads performed on a troubled sector. Is this really the case? time dd if=/dev/sda skip=900343967 of=a.bin count=4 iflag=direct conv=noerror,sync dd: reading …
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I'm not sure how the quoted author came to his conclusion. I'm not debating if he is correct, or not, I just don't have that experience. On the other hand, in regards to this statement... gddrescue is superior to dd at least in terms of being able t…
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