drive integrity check problems

["Michael Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

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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