I assume my external exFAT hard drive is dead. There are many questions about ddrescue
but typically the poster manages to recover something. I just want an analysis of my results.
ddrescue
shows:
I have left it for longer than this before and the percentage rescued is always 0.00%
I also used TestDisk in Windows and that gave a "Read Error"
Sometimes I can ls
the files and directories in the external hard drive; usually ls
just hangs and never completes. I cannot copy the directories using cp -r
for example as the copy process never gets past 0 bytes. But, clearly, Ubuntu (and Windows) can view the file structure. The problem is accessing the files and moving, copying, viewing them.
Any suggestions? There is almost 2TB of data which I would prefer not to lose but if the external drive is dead then it is dead.