[Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: ntfsclone: error(5)

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

Hello Daniel,

Working with faulty hard disk, you must use the --rescue option. See the
ntfsclone manual for details:

  --rescue 

  Ignore disk read errors so disks having bad sectors, e.g. dying disks,
  can be rescued the most efficiently way, with minimal stress on them.
  Ntfsclone works at the lowest, sector level in this mode too thus more
  data can be rescued.  The contents of the unreadable sectors are filled
  by character '?' and the beginning of such sectors are marked by
  "BadSectoR\0".

I'll add info about his to the error message. Thanks for reporting this
missing ntfsclone diagnostic message.

If you run 'chkdsk /f /r' then Windows will see and report the bad sectors
too.

	Szaka

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, KORYTINA DANIEL wrote:

> Feel free to email me for details,
> ~Dan
> 
> ... on RHEL4 ... (ntfs partition w/ at least 1 bad block):
> (Windows XP surface scan doesn't report anything wrong)
> 
> [root@localhost ~]# ntfsclone --save-image -o - /dev/sda2 | gzip
> -c > ntfs_wallach.img.gz
> ntfsclone v1.11.2
> NTFS volume version: 3.1
> Cluster size       : 4096 bytes
> Current volume size: 29964693504 bytes (29965 MB)
> Current device size: 29964695040 bytes (29965 MB)
> Scanning volume ...
> 100.00 percent completed
> Accounting clusters ...
> Space in use       : 15575 MB (52.0%)
> Saving NTFS to image ...
> ERROR(5): read_all: Input/output error