Raw recovery

[NeghVar]

Anyone know of a raw data copy app that can be instructed to skip unreadable sectors?

 

[TCM]

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man....n=0&manpath=OpenBSD+5.3&arch=i386&format=html

     conv=value[, value ...]
              Where value is one of the symbols from the following list.

              noerror  Do not stop processing on an input error.  When an
                       input error occurs, a diagnostic message followed by
                       the current input and output block counts will be
                       written to the standard error output in the same format
                       as the standard completion message.  If the sync
                       conversion is also specified, any missing input data
                       will be replaced with NUL bytes (or with spaces if a
                       block oriented conversion value was specified) and
                       processed as a normal input buffer.  If the sync
                       conversion is not specified, the input block is omitted
                       from the output.  On input files which are not tapes or
                       pipes, the file offset will be positioned past the
                       block in which the error occurred using lseek(2).

 

[drescherjm]

ddrescue

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html

 

[NeghVar]

got Air running from CAINE to gather the data off the HDD
Air is a GUI for dd and CAINE is a digital forensic suite

 

[devman]

I'd fire up a PartedMagic LiveCD, it has just about every harddrive and data utility you could ask for.

As drescherjm said, ddrescue will probably be the best tool for this job. It will attempt to recover a drive image from a failing device.