Booting NOT-Windows

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>   dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/myusbdisk/my_hosed_xp_disk.dd bs=8M
> conv=noerror,sync

  There's also a couple of tools that improve on this concept.
dd_rescue approaches the "bad block" problem more sophisticatedly,
varying block sizes to improve performance while extracting maximum
possible data.  In addition, dd_rhelp is a front-end for dd_rescue.
It will go back and try to repeatedly re-read failed blocks after the
good blocks copy (get the low-hanging fruit first), thus giving you
most data sooner while possibly getting everything eventually.

-- Ben