On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Mike Branda wrote:
> I have a 1.2 gig .pst file that won't copy using regular tools like
> rsync or cp. It gets to about 340 meg each time and then gets stuck.
> Several other .pst files of roughly the same size in the same directory
> copy fine. I know I've seen Eben and maybe Kwan talk about using dd or
> tar or something to recover files. Anybody have suggestions or hints as
> to how to even copy this file to another place to then try to recover
> it? I believe it to be corrupt. Another question would be has anybody
> used anything to recover a corrupt .pst file or have any suggestions
> after I get it copied?
dd if=badfile.pst of=recoveredfile.pst bs=1k conv=noerrer
dd_recover (or whatever it's called) may be a better tool for this.
Depending on the app's error handling, recoveredfile.pst may or may not be
usable. Since you can't read it directly, you've got a bad block on your
hard disk. Since it (the bad block) is visible with user tools, your HD is
out of spares. That means it (the HD) will continue to get bad blocks and
won't be able to hide them from you. You should replace it pronto.
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