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Tested Ddrescue
Hi, I have a failing Sata HDD external 1TB WD, it doesn't load the file system anymore due to multiple bad sectors in its Boot sector, So I was looking into this post and after a bit of research, I found out that this may become the best tool available for us saving HDD lives. I current bought a new 2TB Seagate backup plus now I will try using DD rescue as per this main post.
Here's the command I'm trying now,
ddrescue -f -r3 -v -n /dev/sdd /dev/sdc recovery.log
/dev/sdd - failing drive(source) (1tb)
/dev/sdc - destination drive (2tB)
I have no clue what -d (use disk direct access) and -S (Sparse mode) actually does, but based on some posts here, some didn't do the -S or -d.
So guys, did I do the right thing above??