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/>

recoverdm                                         Version 0.19                                      RECOVERDM(1)