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	Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)		Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b105)
	Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode, sharing)		Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0-b105, mixed mode, sharing)
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		+	!!dd_rescue!!
		+	AS I said, the previous hard disk in this laptop had started to fail and I replaced it. When I bought the replacement disk I also bought a USB 2 caddy (under £10.00) and I put the old disk in there.
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		+	The old disk is NTFS and holds a Windows XP installation. I want to recover the data and turn that old Windows XP inslallation into a virtual machine, probably running in VMWare Player on Linux.
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		+	The disk has bad sectors that `dd` cannot read so I got hold of dd_rescue:
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		+	$ sudo apt-get install ddrescue
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		+	Plugged the old disk in its USB caddy into the Ubuntu laptop and it is detected as a SCSI drive /dev/sda.
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		+	{{{mdsh@vaio1:~/tmp$ dd_rescue -A -v -w /dev/sda1 sda1
		+	dd_rescue: (info): about to transfer 0.0 kBytes from /dev/sda1 to sda1
		+	dd_rescue: (info): blocksizes: soft 65536, hard 512
		+	dd_rescue: (info): starting positions: in 0.0k, out 0.0k
		+	dd_rescue: (info): Logfile: (none), Maxerr: 0
		+	dd_rescue: (info): Reverse: no , Trunc: no , interactive: no
		+	dd_rescue: (info): abort on Write errs: yes, spArse write: never
		+	dd_rescue: (info): ipos: 11775552.0k, opos: 11775552.0k, xferd: 11775552.0k
		+	errs: 0, errxfer: 0.0k, succxfer: 11775552.0k
		+	+curr.rate: 1010kB/s, avg.rate: 1001kB/s, avg.load: 3.3%
		+	dd_rescue: (info): problems at ipos 11775552.0k: Success
		+	fall back to smaller blocksize
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		+	dd_rescue: (info): /dev/sda1 (11775613.5k): EOF
		+	Summary for /dev/sda1 -> sda1:
		+	dd_rescue: (info): ipos: 11775613.5k, opos: 11775613.5k, xferd: 11775613.5k
		+	errs: 0, errxfer: 0.0k, succxfer: 11775613.5k
		+	+curr.rate: 8165kB/s, avg.rate: 1001kB/s, avg.load: 3.3%
		+	mdsh@vaio1:~/tmp$}}}
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