Re: [opensuse] Is there a way to read data from a hdd, with a worm eaten bootsector?

Robert Smits wrote:
On June 30, 2008 05:23:41 am James Knott wrote:
Oddball wrote:
James Knott schreef:
The problem with Spinrite is that it attempts to repair the drive,
rather than copy the data to another drive. This means if it messes
up, you've lost everything. It's far safer to copy the drive
contents to another drive and work on recovery there.

While it's certainly prudent to make a copy (if you can) of the damaged drive
if you have data on your drive that isn't being read, it's not going to be copied, either.
Please explain how it's possible to repair a drive, but not copy with appropriate tools. If a sector is repairable, it's copyable. Once you have copied all the readable sectors, you can fix any damaged ones and also the file system etc.



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