Hard Disk Failure

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 26, 2006, at 15:31, aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net wrote:

> okay, okay, so maybe my command can't copy the partitions
> BACKWARDS...but... *scratches head*

.... but often sectors that won't read forward will read backwards.  I 
don't understand the drive physics, but I've recovered drives with 
dd_rhelp that dd couldn't salvage.

I'm sure the guys who write these programs understand dd well and more 
about drives than we do.

-Bill
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