NAME

       recoverdm - recover filesdisks with damaged sectors

SYNOPSIS

       recoverdm -t type -i filedevicein -o fileout [-l list] [-n retries] [-s speed]

DESCRIPTION

       recoverdm This program will help you recover disks with bad sectors. You can recover files
       as well complete devices.  In case if finds sectors which simply cannot  be  recoverd,  it
       writes  an  empty sector to the output file and continues.  If you're recovering a CD or a
       DVD and the program cannot read the sector in "normal mode", then the program will try  to
       read  the  sector  in  "RAW  mode" (without error-checking etc.).  This toolkit also has a
       utility called 'mergebad': mergebad merges multiple images into one.  This can  be  useful
       when  you  have,  for example, multiple CD's with the same data which are all damaged.  In
       such case, you can then first use recoverdm to retrieve the data  from  the  damaged  CD's
       into image-files and then combine them into one image with mergebad.

OPTIONS

       -t type
              is  1  for  files,  10 for floppy disks and 40 for IDE disks (try -h for a complete
              list)

       -i filedevicein
              is the device or file you want to recover.

       -o fileout
              is the file where to write to. This file should not already exists.

       -l list
              This file will contain the offsets of the bad blocks as well as the size of the bad
              blocks.  This file can be used together with the image with the mergebad utility.

       -n retries
              Number of retries before going on with next sector, defaults to 6.

       -r RAW read
              Number  of  retries  while  reading  in  RAW mode before going on with next sector,
              default to 6.

       -s rotation speed
              Speed of the CD-ROMDVD, defaults to 1.

       -h     Gives the help message.

SEE ALSO

       gddrescue(1), dd_rescue(1), testdisk(1), gpart(1)

AUTHOR

       Folkert van Heusden <flok@xs4all.nl>,
       Home page is <http://www.vanheusden.com/recoverdm/>