[poissony]

As someone who today has done a full backup of my failing Samsung drive, I'd heartily recommend not using dd but using dd_rescue instead. Took me around 3 hours plus and is better at dealing with errors. I startted off using dd but after 4 hours is stopped with a input/output error.

More info on dd_rescue here:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=190306&highlight=ddrescue