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Thank you for your help jmreicha...since i am completely new to ddrescue...can you give me a command that i need to use to recover the data from all partitions in the drive to another connected drive? the damaged drive is dev/sda1..
– Guy1984
Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 16:34
Take a look at my updated answer and see if that helps.
– jmreicha
Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 16:53
thank you..ill run ddrescue and come back with an update!
– Guy1984
Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 16:54
well..i kinda stuck at logistical issues for this. i dont have a drive that is bigger then 500GB, just my 3TB USB drive but its GUI partition table (hfs) and dd_rescue gives me input/output error because of that..i bieleve i need a GNU partition tables for the target drive..cant reformat it either, have tons of important data on it..i guess ill have to get another target drive from somewhere
– Guy1984
Commented Aug 17, 2012 at 17:25

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