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Clone a damaged hard drive

Problem
Hard drive read/write fault error(s).
Solution
Get a new hard drive and clone data as soon as possible!
  • get a hard drive of same size and type (e.g. 80 GB, S-ATA)
  • attach new hard drive as slave drive
  • download and burn Knoppix CD-Rom
  • boot from Knoppix CD-Rom
  • on console type: dd_rescue -A -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb
  • -A = fill damaged blocks with 0, -v = verbose

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