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Aug 17, 2012 at 18:13 vote accept Guy1984
Aug 17, 2012 at 17:25 comment added Guy1984 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
Aug 17, 2012 at 16:54 comment added Guy1984 thank you..ill run ddrescue and come back with an update!
Aug 17, 2012 at 16:53 comment added jmreicha Take a look at my updated answer and see if that helps.
Aug 17, 2012 at 16:43 history edited jmreicha CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 17, 2012 at 16:34 comment added Guy1984 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..
Aug 17, 2012 at 16:03 history answered jmreicha CC BY-SA 3.0