Imaging an SSD with Bad Sectors (in: Computer Setup and S…)
By: Genetic_Junk
11 Feb 00:03
My operating system SSD has bad sectors. The drive is still functional, but SMART says failure is imminent. Traditional backup programs could not make an image of the drive due to I/O errors.
I was able to use ddrescue (www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/) to image the drive. Over 99.99% of the data was saved. My understanding is ddrescue writes zeroes for sectors it cannot read.
To avoid having to reinstall the OS and many programs, I’d like to write this image to a new drive. Because I …
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