safecopy

There are some predefined settings:

• stage1: Preset to rescue most of the data fast, using no retries and avoiding bad areas.
• stage2: Preset to rescue more data, using no retries but searching for exact ends of bad areas.
• stage3: Preset to rescue everything that can be rescued using maximum retries, head realignment tricks and low level access.

In current working directory, safecopy will create files with badblocks map: stage#.badblocks, which are used in next stages. Typical usage is:

safecopy --stage1 /dev/source output.img
safecopy --stage2 /dev/source output.img
safecopy --stage3 /dev/source output.img

Not all USB adapters can handle SATA low level operations.

safecopy --forceopen -L 0 --stage1 /dev/source /dev/destination