Krekna Mektek wrote: >I want to rebuilt from the good one and the faulty one. That's why I >wanted to dd the disk to an image file, but it complains it has no >boot sector. > > > >>>>I did the folowing: >>>> >>>>dd conv=noerror if=dev/hdd1 of=/mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img >>>>losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img >>>> >>>> You could try doing this again using ddrescue (google if you need to install it): ddrescue dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.log Then do it again using -r10 (to increase the retries on the faulty sectors) ddrescue -r10 dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.img /mnt/hdb1/Faulty-RAIDDisk.log This will be much quicker because the log file contains details of the faulty sectors. With luck (mucho luck) you may not even lose data. David -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
