-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You should use: # dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/dev/hdxx bs=512 conv=noerror,sync where xx is the drive and partition (of same size) That should copy the data exactly, and the "noerror" option will ignore physically corrupt areas (if any). You should first create the new partition with /sbin/fdisk or /sbin/parted. Here is one of the origional helpful documents I used when I had to recover data: <http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/recovering-ext2.html> Most of the article is about recovering the partition table, which you probably don't need to do (what does "/sbin/fdisk -l" say?), but the beginning is interesting. If I ever find the other articles I've used (kick myself for forgetting to bookmark, I'll post the links. ps. I don't know how to fix your tape drive problems. Madison Kelly wrote:
I do have an identical spare drive but how can I make an exact copy of a drive with a messed up file system and also, how can I be sure that the copy is non-destructive? If I can do this, it'd be wonderful!
Madison
PS - I got a dd of th last tape that ran (finally) and it is about 3.6GB (about right). I extracted it as a tar.gz (which should work) but it fails claiming to not be a gzip archive... Any ideas on that front by chance?
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