My 500GB drive gave up on me yesterday taking with it about 7 years' worth of email and documents. I was on the brink of giving up trying to mount the drive using Knoppix 6.2 attempting to mount and copy the contents into a fresh hdd coming up empty handed every time I try. It would have been a disaster had a utility called dd_rescue did not exist. Luckily, dd_rescue lived up to it's name and saves the day.
I was able to clone my defective drive (sda) into a new and identical drive (sdb) with just a simple command such as:
#dd_rescue /dev/sda /dev/sdb
The operation takes a while copying the drive layout, but, it's worth every second.
Once it was done, I took out the bad drive and booted with the cloned drive just as if it was the good old running drive.
Indeed, dd_rescue saves the day!
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