[Gllug] Dying hard disk

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 01 Aug, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> 
> I have a hard drive that is dying, it's still running but it keeps giving
> unreliable reads and SMART is reporting it's on the way out.  I have a new
> disk that I want to copy as much data onto before the original dies.  Every
> time I try and copy the data across (tried Norton Ghost and dd) it gives up
> at some point and I have to start again.  I wondered if anyone knew of any
> tools that would help me with this.

   Several people have reported that the best tool is a fridge, dump as many
files as possible before it warms again, repeat until done.

-- 
Chris Bell


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