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11 questions linked to/from DDRescue - Did I do the wrong command which is causing it to take longer then expected
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Can ddrescue skip errors faster?
I try to rescue some data from my drive (with an NTFS partition), which out of sudden stopped working. Under Windows it doesn't mount properly into the system, causing a lot of hang-ups. I managed to ...
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Diagnose sound of damaged hard drive
I'm trying to recover some data form a 3TB Western Digital drive (WD30EZRX) that was part of a MyBook USB 3 enclosure. I'm pretty new to data recovery, and I'm having trouble diagnosing the precise ...
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Click of death - freeze or replace PCB?
I've experienced the click of death on my WD3200JS and I'm trying to recover some data from it. The situation is as follows:
I hear the click od death during normal PC operation. The PC freezes (it's ...
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ddrescue fails to complete NTFS recovery
I recently had a friend with a new Hitachi 2TB 32MB 7200RPM 3.5" SATA 6.0Gb/s Internal Desktop Hard Drive with Win7 Pro OS that was reported by Windows as failing. He asked me to recover it and ...
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I/O errors not bubbling up to ddrescue
I'm trying to get an image from a damaged USB stick using ddrescue.
The process works for the first 100MB of the drive then gets completely stuck: the ddrescue output is frozen (not moving even for ...
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ddrescue slow when it copy the error blocks [duplicate]
I use the ddrescue to recover the data from the old hard disk, but I found it running very slow when it copy the failed blocks , can advise any options that can use on ddrescue to skip the error ...
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How to recover damaged video file on an External hard drive
So I have a lot of video on an external HDD and most of the videos run fine. However, with some during the video it becomes very laggy and skips over some bits. When I have tried moving the files or ...
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Bad Sectored HDD - Need(ed) ideas
So, I'm running CHKDSK on my single-partitioned 450-ishGB HDD using Shift+F10 with Win7 repair disk.
I got about 2300 bad sectors, some affecting Windows/system32 directory.
It's been running about ...
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drive failing, dd back failed at 33%, can I partially recover?
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 ...
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ddrescue 0% recovered - is the external hard drive dead?
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 ...
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HDD suddenly disappeared from Explorer
I have an older Seagate 120 GB HDD, that I'm connecting to my laptop with an IDE/SATA to USB adapter. The drive is easily 15 years old, but when I connected to the SATA/USB adapter (which is powered),...
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