Then you can run ddrescue (once compiled, it would probably also run on 10.3). To compile, open the Terminal and cd to the ddrescue directory, and then run the following commands: ![]() I then tried to compile it on Tiger, and it worked the first time (great to see Linux tools compiling on OS X without causing a headache). I tried to compile ddrescue on Panther and it did not work. Then, looking aroung on the net, I found a Linux tool called GNU ddrescue made by Antonio Diaz Diaz (not to be confused with dd_rescue written by Kurt Garloff, which was mentionned in one of the comments of the original article). So I decided to look what other tools were available, I looked on macosxhints, and found this article about using dd to make a block copy of a volume (e.g. I tried using DiskWarrior, but it was really slow - the message was saying something like "speed inhibted by disk malfunction." It was so slow, I was not sure if it had crashed, or if it would take weeks to get through. Using Apple's Disk Utility repair function failed to fix the drive. When looking at the disk with Apple's Disk Utility, the disk is visible, the name of the volume is not displayed (/dev/disk0s5 was displyed instead), and the volume would not mount. ![]() It had three HFS Plus journaled partitions. I had a problem with my disks (an original Maxtor from a dual G5).
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