I have a drive with "Many Bad Sectors". After much deliberation I've chosen to try recovering with safecopy (the choices of tools are overwhelming, and they are all just as cryptic to me - but I digress).
There aren't any tutorials explaining the basic concepts of running safecopy. Hopefully my questions are simple enough to answer quickly. They go like this:
- Can the operation of safecopy be as simple as running it three times (once for each of its "stages")?
- Do I run each "stage" into the same output file (e.g., harddrive.img)? Does it mount the image file and continue to add recovered files to it?
- Is it copying empty space into the image file (i.e., do I need a destination that is as big as the source drive, or simply as big as the data)?
Is it truly copying the drive (directory structure and all), or just file dumping?
Thanks
