drive integrity check problems

From: Michael Scott <arcadians(at)onetel.net.uk>
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 10:53:10 EDT

Hi,

A beginning analyst I needs some advice. please.

I have imaged a very old Windows FAT drive (3.7Gb) and tried to verfiy the original physical drive integrity before imaging in RH Linux by hashing:

# md5sum /dev/hdd

I get an error: File Input/Output Error some way into the hash calc. Is this indicative of bad sectors ?
I also get the same when I do a plain dd image , dd if=/dev/hdd.

By adding conv=noerror I can image the drive, ignoring errors and this works, fine albeit very slowly.

Any advice and knowledge much appreciated.

Many thanks

Michael

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