Re: [PLUG] Need to recover an external HD

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com>]

On Oct 13, 2011 4:06 PM, "JP Vossen" <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
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>>  On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:12:33PM -0400, Amul Shah wrote:
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>>>  My father-in-law unplugged his external USB drive from his Windows laptop...
>
>
> Well there's your problem...  :-)
>
> +1 for 'ddrescue' as well, but watch out, there are 2 of them:
>      1 ddrescue - copy data from one file or block device to another
>      2 gddrescue - the GNU data recovery tool
>
> You probably want the "gddrescue" package, or maybe try both.
>

Was dd_rescue renamed gddrescue?  If not, then there are three. I remember having good luck with dd_rescue.

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