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Old 05-01-2012, 10:12 PM   #11
OldDutch
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
My understanding is that Carbon Copy Cloner uses the ditto command under the hood, and ditto should simply skip unreadable files, rather than abort the whole copy. I thought SuperDuper worked this way as well, but I might have been mistaken.

Hopefully this allows the majority of the data to be copied off the drive.
Great, it mostly worked! I got about 95% off before it crashed. Better than the other attempts, that is for sure.

So I am going to install a new hard drive, and restore what I can. I will also try an plug the drive in via usb enclosure and try again.

Thanks again!
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