[Techtalk] dying hard drive

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:18, Maria McKinley wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Asking for more advice... I have a disk that is definitely on its way
> out. When I boot, it has numerous unrecoverable errors (in the /usr
> partition), but it does boot up and run. What is the best/easiest way
> for me to transfer stuff to a new drive? In the past, I've had drives
> fail more drastically, so that I have to re-install, and then I pull off
> config and user stuff off of backup. This time my old disk is still
> bootable, so seems like I should be able to just move stuff over to the
> new disk before it fails completely. Would love advice on best way to
> precede...
>

The usual method is to install a second hard drive, boot up Knoppix, and clone 
the old disk with ddrescue. This is very fast and easy. This tells how:

http://www.debianadmin.com/recover-data-from-a-dead-hard-drive-using-ddrescue.html
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