You are wanting the dd command or the ddrescue command. Dd is standard but will likely choke on failed sectors. Ddrescue will keep moving and retrying failed sectors until it suceeds or times out. <div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 14, 2011 5:47 PM, "Carl Keil" <<a href="mailto:carl@snarlnet.com">carl@snarlnet.com</a>> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry. My boot drive is apparently failing. Just got this in the mail > after having to rescue my grub/boot info after waking up to a dead server. > > Device: /dev/hda, 51 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > > The email before that said 44 Currently unreadable. > > So, is there a way to slap another 40 gig HD (that's how big the current one is) in there and type a command, from say the rescue CD's command line and just copy over what I have now, verbatim, to a new disk. I'm going to keep googling, but I trust this list more than most Linux info I've seen. Like copying at the /dev/hda level. Copying partitions, etc. > > Thanks, > > ck > > > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> > For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </div>