Bah

[alicephilippa]

So the boot HDD in the desktop has decided it's time to die. Ok, so it's not quiet dead yet, but my usual method¹ of cloning the disk has just failed with drive not ready errors about 4GB in. This is not good. So whilst I sit here with the laptop listening to the 845 valve based amp, a full check, using the vendor utility, is running on the disk.

Hopefully this will remap the duff bits, so that I can clone it to the replacement. If not I'll have to go down the reinstall route, even though I really cannot face the hassles of a reinstall of WinXP and all my stuff. But, the disk is fortunately in a condition where virtually all of the data can be read --- to be honest, I'm not actually sure what is duff. The annoying thing is that this is the partition with all my MP3s on.

And before anyone asks: no I don't have a recent backup. My capability to do backups has long since been outstripped by the sheer amount that needs backing up.

¹bung the old and new disks in a Linux box and do dd if=/dev/<olddisk> of=/dev/<newdisk>

Alice.

Comments

[zoeimogen.livejournal.com]

dd conv=sync,noerror might help depending on how bad the disk is... (It won't barf on errors, but it could take a while)

[alicephilippa.livejournal.com]

Well the disk appears fine under WinXP...

*ping!*

...If it is fine under XP, then I can use Ghost to do an image of the disk, put in new disk, restore image by booting off the Ghost CD...

Now why didn't I think of this last night?

Alice.