SSD crash: how I almost lost my home-drive but got almost all data back

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Post by flockaroo » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 5:26 PM UTC

SSD crash: how I almost lost my home-drive but got almost all data back
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Re: SSD crash: how I almost lost my home-drive but got almost all data back

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Post by navjack27 » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 5:34 PM UTC

Would be cool if more detail was mentioned about the PSU, make, model, wattage, etc

Re: SSD crash: how I almost lost my home-drive but got almost all data back

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Post by pwg » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 5:47 PM UTC

In case the author is reading:

> first i tried to "dd" the whole disk to a file, but every time an input /output error occured, dd would of course stop.

This is exactly the purpose of the "noerror" option to dd -- to tell dd to continue reading even when an error returns from the disk.

Re: SSD crash: how I almost lost my home-drive but got almost all data back

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Post by flockaroo » Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

pwg wrote: post #3

In case the author is reading: > first i tried to "dd" the whole disk to a file, but every time an input /output error occured, dd would of course stop. This is exactly the purpose of the "noerror" option to dd -- to tell dd to continue reading even when an error returns from the disk.

ah, cool! thanks for the hint ...if only i knew then ;-)