Questions tagged [ddrescue]
ddrescue is a data recovery tool that copies data from one file or block device to another, trying to rescue the good parts first in case of read errors.
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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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Can I use a partition as ddrescue destination?
I have a large disk (8TB) and I want to try and rescue a smaller disk (1TB). Is it possible to partition the larger disk and use only that partition for the rescue? Or ddrescue will format the whole ...
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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:
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ddrescue: error when resuming rescue
After running ddrescue ddrescue /dev/sdb1 /media/lukas/Elements/sdb.dd /home/lukas/sdb.log to restore a currupted 4TB disk to a file for over a week the computer has been plugged out by accident.
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Recovering files from SSD using DDRescue
I'm not sure if the SSD with lost partitions and errors can be recovered as is, it is sdc that I need to recover files from but it has no partition id like sdb which has sdb1 ntfs.
I use this command ...
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what is the size of a ddrescue mapfile, relative to the disk image that I'm trying to repair?
I've got a 1TB hard drive image that I've copied to my /home partition (2TB) using dd. I have 277GiB free on that partition. I also have a 2TB external hard drive That has slightly more than 1T free.
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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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Linux, Hard drive : how to avoid read failures from USB adapter after first error
I regularly try to save data from failing hard drives. I use a sata USB adapter, and ddrescue.
The issue is that when it encounter a bad sector, it result in a read error, and all next read will also ...
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ddrescue and scratched DVD: Is it possible to change optical drive?
I am currently ripping/rescuing an old scratched DVD with ddrescue using a USB BluRay-reader, and this DVD has ~1GB of bad-sector which I still want to try and save using disc-cleaning tools and ...
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ddrescue: proper command to make copy of a copy
I am copying my failing/dying hard drive with ddrescue, and after almost 15 days, the process is around 84% and expects to finish Pass 1, in next 4 or 5 days hopefully.
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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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What does ddrescue logfile indicate?
I am running ddrescue, trying to copy my dying 2TB Seagate Baracuda harddrive to a new 4TB hard drive.
Now, it has been running for 5 days now, and on the terminal screen I see there are some read ...
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ddrescue, second diskcopy when used larger disk for diskcopy for first copy form a failing HDD
I have a failing hard drive and after first using Testdisk which was going on very slow, I am using ddrescue to copy the disk. The original disk is a 2TB drive and had 4 NTFS partitions (which I had ...
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