[Tfug] Drive recovery

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 3 Jun 2009 at 22:27, Harry McGregor  wrote:

> dd will barf with i/o errors, dd_rescue will continue reading.
> 
> There is also GNU ddrescue (not the same as dd_rescue), and it does a
> good job too.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
> 
> http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

I wonder how these compare in recovery ability to the non-free, non-OSS program 
SpinRite?

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