"Ant" wrote in message
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Hi!
I have a very old PATA HDD that is dying due to SMART errors and I am
trying to copy my data to another working drive, but it has problems
reading some data. Here is an example:
$ cp -R * ~/DebianPATAhddBackups/
cp: cannot stat `Files/AntsImages': Input/output error
cp: reading `Mac OS X.dmg': Input/output error
cp: failed to extend `Mac OS X.dmg': Input/output error
I assume my Debian stable was unable to copy those files. IIRC, there was
a way to retry over and over until copied fully. How do I do that?
With that many reallocated and pending sectors, it aint gunna happen.
It has been so many years I did this. 