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From: Matthias Bethke <Matthias.Bethke@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:47:02
Message-Id: 20051021134200.GA9508@huxley
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive by maxim wexler
1 Hi maxim,
2 on Wednesday, 2005-10-19 at 09:44:58, you wrote:
3 > it started a little flakey but soon progressed to all
4 > out dandruff!
5
6 Lowlevelling seems the way to go indeed, if there's anything that can be
7 done. Just back up the drive with
8 dd if=/dev/hdX conv=noerror bs=4096 | gzip > /some/where/bak.gz
9 lowlevel format it, and dump the whole image back. I guess that's the
10 best cance you have to save as much as possible, from what you said it
11 should be pretty much verything, mabe except for the MBR and some
12 Windoze stuff.
13
14 regards
15 Matthias
16
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