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Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"?

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fozztexx@fozztexx.com wrote:
> In article <lo4odf$nhm$1@dont-email.me>,
> Percival P. Cassidy <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> wrote:
>>I have a 500GB Seagate SATA drive (well past its 5-yr warranty 
>>expiration date) that reports "S.M.A.R.T. tripped." SeaTools says it 
>>can't recover anything from it, but is there any other tool that might 
>>be able to clone it to another drive and allow me to retrieve some files?

> Check out GNU ddrsecue. It will get everything it possibly can off the
> drive. I've used it many many times to recover the good sectors from
> drives with bad sectors. When it encounters a sector it can't read it
> will skip over it and move on to the next one instead of aborting.
> When used with a log file it's possible for it to resume where it left
> off, so you can have it read all the good data, then put the drive in
> the freezer, and try again to read all the bad sectors.

> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/

I like dd_rescue better: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
But that is a matter of taste.

Both are suitable for this kind of recovery task and both 
are free. You can get life-CDs/DVDs with them preinstalled.

Arno

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Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2014-06-21 16:02 -0400
  Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-06-21 18:39 -0300
    Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2014-06-22 08:30 +0000
      Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-06-22 12:03 -0300
        Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> - 2014-06-22 15:42 -0400
          Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-06-23 15:27 -0300
          Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2014-06-24 11:03 +0000
  Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? fozztexx@fozztexx.com - 2014-06-22 15:40 +0000
    Re: Cloning a drive that shows "S.M.A.R.T. tripped"? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2014-06-24 11:05 +0000

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