I am tring to clone disk to disk using clonezilla live but the process fails showing buffer I/O error messages and displays a message that the disk has bad sectors. Is it safe to use the -rescue option that is in the advanced menu? does it attempt to save any data or does it just skip the bad sectors, if it just skips the bad sectors then it should be safe to use, right?
Thanks for any help
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It's OK to use "-rescue" option. However, it might fail to save the complete data due to the bad blocks in your harddrive.
You can try another command called gddrescue or ddrescue. They are more suitable for this purpose.
Steven.
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2013-02-17
I had the same problem as rich2012 describes and I was able to successfully clone the disk by using the -rescue and -fsck-src-part-y options.
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Hi,
I am tring to clone disk to disk using clonezilla live but the process fails showing buffer I/O error messages and displays a message that the disk has bad sectors. Is it safe to use the -rescue option that is in the advanced menu? does it attempt to save any data or does it just skip the bad sectors, if it just skips the bad sectors then it should be safe to use, right?
Thanks for any help
It's OK to use "-rescue" option. However, it might fail to save the complete data due to the bad blocks in your harddrive.
You can try another command called gddrescue or ddrescue. They are more suitable for this purpose.
Steven.
I had the same problem as rich2012 describes and I was able to successfully clone the disk by using the -rescue and -fsck-src-part-y options.
Cool! Thanks for sharing that.
Steven.