| How to grab an image of a HDD in Linux? |
by romandas |
2004-12-30 15:05:46 |
I've picked up a USB drive case and have an old drive that failed on me long ago (as in power surge/scrambled data). The drive still has information on it, but I believe the file allocation table is what got scrambled. Is there a way to grab an entire image of the drive so I can search through it with grep and the like?
Most of what I hope to reclaim on this is text-based anyway.. so this should work, if a bit tedious.
Of course, if you have a better idea of what I could try, I'm all ears :)
FYI, the drive is an old 2.1 GB (yes, I'm serious) Quantum Bigfoot. |
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dd should do the job nicely... | by Bellator | 2004-12-30 15:08:29 |
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That's what I was thinking.. | by romandas | 2004-12-30 15:11:35 |
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invoke man dd :) | by Tars_Tarkas | 2004-12-30 15:16:27 |
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compressed... | by tangentblade | 2004-12-30 15:50:16 |
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Yea, better in fact, since you avoid | by Tars_Tarkas | 2004-12-30 16:05:13 |
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Of course, if you leave out the whole "| bzip2 - | by bwkaz | 2004-12-30 16:18:58 |
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Which is always fun. | by LionsPhil | 2004-12-30 16:27:19 |
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I accidently did somethig like that once... | by Tars_Tarkas | 2004-12-30 16:36:07 |
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You don't need to take an image to grep, BUT | by Arachnid | 2004-12-30 15:56:19 |
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Well im not a Linux guy but.... | by OnDemand | 2004-12-30 18:55:21 |
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Ah but then you need another person... | by Tars_Tarkas | 2004-12-30 19:27:07 |
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Your right my mistake.... (n/t) | by OnDemand | 2004-12-30 19:46:08 |
