An external hard drive had trouble mounting after bootup. So I began to clone it using dd
.This was quite a while ago, and so I don't recall the exact parameters. Something rather standard for a failing ntfs partitioned drive I'm sure. Anyhow, it failed around a 1/3rd of the way through. And now I have a partial replica of about 350 GB. The external died for good during the dd
. I've never been able to get it recognized again.
Is there any way to mount or explore this partially dumped drive?
file -i
tells me it is an application/octet-stream; charset=binary