Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Kyle wrote:
>> I'd suggest using ddrescue to (hopefully) image the drive first
> 
> Ditto that. Don't use plain dd. The filesystem and other stuff may refuse to
> give you data, and I think dd would just halt if a sector is unreadable.
> ddrescue continues and tries to copy as much as it can.

Online resources claim there's an extra option to dd to make it skip 
unreadable blocks.

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