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ddrescue second run, running time: n/a
I am running ddrescue to rescue a Windows 10 drive to a new SSD from a gparted media drive. I ran it successfully the first time with:
sudo ddrescue -f -d -n /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /path/to/map.log.
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Mapping ddrescue and data from a particular head on a hdd
I'd like to clone data from a particular head of a HDD. Can I do a ddrescue and then divide the rescue image by the number of heads to get multiple images, each with data from one head/surface?
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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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Confused source with destination with ddrescue
I was about to recover second out of five failing RAID disks with ddrescue, and sudden peculiar twist occurred in my mind, and I typed
sudo ddrescue --verbose --idirect --no-scrape -f /dev/sda /dev/...
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How can I find out which sectors are used by files on NTFS?
I'm recovering data from a failing hard drive using ddrescue. It's a 2TB disk, NTFS filesystem, but only about 200GB or so is actually used, so rescuing it in its entirety would be a big ol' waste of ...
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ddrescue: How to restart from pass 1?
I've been trying to recover data from a 500GB WD Scorpio Blue drive I found recently that was from an old Acer laptop. I ran it for about a day before the read rate had slowed down to about 50KB/S and ...
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How to mount a ddrescue image if no partition is recognized?
On macOS Ventura 13.1, I successfully rescued a corrupt, not mountable disk (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) via ddrescue:
ddrescue -v -f -n /dev/disk3s2 /Volumes/emptyhd/hd.dmg ~/logfile.log
After some ...
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Can't recover files from a crashed SD card although there are no I/O errors
I have a SD card that was in my Android phone. Unencrypted. With app data and pictures on it. Then one day it was not recognized anymore and it was empty. I wasn't worried because I have backups but I ...
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How to boot again with Windows 95 after a byte-by-byte HDD copy?
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I have a very old PATA HDD (1998 Fujitsu 3.2GB) plugged into a very old computer (Pentium 2 / Asus P2L97 motherboard) with one bootable partition (Windows 95 and Fat32 file system). As ...
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ddrescue --generate-mode produced mapfile for resume, but missing non-trimmed blocks?
I started ddrescue to recover a failing 2TB WD drive from my NAS. Although I specified a logfile, unfortunately I was running ubuntu in trial mode from a bootable flash drive and did not write the ...
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ddrescue : after having rescued a single partition, can I rescue the whole drive?
It might be a silly question but I had a dying external HDD with one single NTFS partition.
I may have been naive, but I thought it would be better to use ddrescue to rescue the partition and not the ...
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Find corrupted files on a partially recovered ext4
I have hard disk that was damaged by impact when it was running. The disk had 6 partitions and some unallocated space too. After the impact, 3 partitions appear to be fine and I am able to read/write ...
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How to recover an ext4 partition with a bad superblock on a dubious 500GB internal hard drive?
I bought this hard drive 6 months ago and it shouldn't be failing like this. It's a 500 GB sata III internal seagate that I have being using on an old ECS G31T-M9 computer with archlinux installed. I ...
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Hard drive stops working during ddrescue and is making odd sounds
We have an older HDD (WD Black 500 GB) that was still in use for the data it had but then at some point, Windows wouldn't boot with the drive installed. I checked with a Linux installation and the ...
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fixing ntfs partition after ddrescue
I had some really slow disk access and determined my disk was unhealthy. I was still able to see file contents and use most of the drive contents in Windows, but a few files were inaccessible. This ...
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