[LinuxUsers] advice on "dcfldd:/dev/sda: input/output error" ?

[Todd Lyons]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr
<roger.rustad at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm helping a coworker recover some stuff of a failing drive. It's quite
> important to him, as his little girl is very sick and he has some
> pictures of her on it.

Nobody's mentioned it, but Spinrite has always been a good problem
solver if you believe everything that you read.  If you have access to
a version of Spinrite, run that and see what it can do for you.

-- 
Regards...      Todd
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