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fdisk -l <-- to get the drives Bad drive =sdb Backup drive =sda dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror <-- to start mirror process Then launch a new terminal (alt+f2) kill -usr1 xxx <---replaced xxx with PID# swap between terminals alt+f1/f2

Yes it's mounted and DD is running in Ubuntu recovery terminal. The kill command is used to display status of current process by DD on secondary terminal (alt+F2). Can's stop the process to download/install anything at this point. The entire screen is pretty much a constant error, except when...

The drive is dead indeed, hence attempting for 40hrs to save any good sectors using default parameters on a DD terminal. I am just not sure how to read the "Records In/Out" numbers.

Please forgive me if this is not the right place to post this. The answer probably is short. I am trying to recover an almost(?) dead drive using DD. I can't decipher the report of the kill command. In the image attached, if I read/understand the well, "records in vs records out" they should...