On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Kieran OSullivan wrote:
> dd can read some of the disk and if you use the conv=noerror you will get most of it but I want to try and get the stuff in the bad sectors as well I've tried
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=save-my-stuff bs=1 conv=noerror
Skip over the bad sections using the seek and skip parameters to dd and
keep writing it out to the same file. You may need to run dd a few times
to skip over all the bad areas. When you get to the end of the disk, then
mount ./save-my-stuff /mnt -o loop
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