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

[Dante Lanznaster]

ditto on spinrite. Never tried it myself, but the reviews are great! :P

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Todd Lyons <tlyons at ivenue.com> wrote:
> 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
> All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second,
> it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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