SSD crash: how I almost lost my home-drive but got almost all data back Posted by flockaroo on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:26PM from the flockaroo.at dept. https://flockaroo.at/blog/?view=article&id=1:ssd-crash-how-i-almost-lost-my-home-drive-but-got-almost-all-data-back&catid=2 ( 3 comments | 3 points | on HN )
> 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.