> Currently I read them out with winhex to an exact image file. It works correctly but > doesn't seem to give multiple tries to bad sectors. Apparently there is some Linux > "DD" method that can do a bunch of retries on sector errors that I just found out > about. I will give it a try some time but there's no guarantee it will work any > better.
Guru's drive is also 1.06 (he dug it up and sent me a picture of the sticker) so between the two we should be OK without needing re-reads.