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A comment on SSD crash: how I almost lost my home-drive but got almost all data back.
> 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.
> 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.