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Old 10-23-2005, 08:46 PM   #1
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Repairing a hard disk

lol.. both of my other posts were locked down lol..

so, if anyone knows how i might use DD to get a drive that has erroneous tables (not sure the exact name, some kind of tables that exist at the 'front' of th disk, how i might use DD to fix it.
 
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If your drive is damaged then DD might not fix it. Here is some dd info.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=362506
http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints...s_cloning.html

Here is some forensics software.
http://www.sleuthkit.org/
 
Old 10-24-2005, 12:15 AM   #3
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dd is useful for copying data; if your filesystem is corrupted you probably want to run fsck
 
  


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