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- Tarun : 394: AVG's bloated, has had recent resource leeching issues and the recent removal of user32.dll
Aug
23
My hard drive is failing!
Filed Under Data recovery, Stupid
My personal hard drive is failing, so I had to go to Digital Doctors and clone it to a new drive, just like old times. Hard drives suck. There's only one bad sector on it but when the system runs across it, all hell breaks loose.
ddrescue is your friend!
While cloning, it was only going 15 to 20 MB/s even on the good parts. I then realized that the -b flag to ddrescue would allow me to force it to go maximum speed. By using -b 4096 it began going 70 to 80 MB/s on the parts of the drive that are working fine.
Don't forget about the good ole data recovery article.
Tags: clone, ddrescue, failure, hard drives, hd, hddComments
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