New HP dv6 laptop and Knoppix (recovering data from damaged drive)

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Michael ODonnell
<michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> Note that dd_rescue (rather than plain old dd) will atempt to continue the
> copy operation even when it encounters bad sectors ...

  There's also dd_rhelp, a wrapper for dd_rescue which will recover
the easy data first, and then focus on re-reading bad blocks
repeatedly in an attempt to coax the data off a not-quite-dead drive.

-- Ben