Comment 13 for bug 430333

I finally figured out to get dd to read the partition:

$ dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/media/label/asus.20090918.iso conv=noerror,sync

Lots of errors scrolled by (not captured). Should I have directed the errors to a file?

The last error (so far; still copying) was at 6143488 bytes (6.1MB). Once this is done (abt 4 hours if dd was right about 2.2 MB/s) I will see how well it compresses.

If such a file is not useful please don't be shy about telling me... maybe I should use a tool made for this purpose like ddrescue or GNU ddrescue.