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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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ddrescue restore image to same disk
Our 4TB drive was failing. I unmounted the principal partition and ran ddrescue /dev/sdb1 /work2/timhay01/work.img /home/timhay01/work_backup.log --try-again --force --verbose where /work2/ is mounted ...
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ddrescue: Retry failed blocks after first run
I backed up a failing harddrive with ddrescue. The command I used was
# ddrescue -vv -d -J /dev/sda /mnt/rescue/winxp.img winxp.map
The program completed with around 60 errors. I wanted to retry ...
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Recovery of files from a Windows failing drive
A 1TB NTFS-formatted disk on my Windows 10 machine started crapping out.
Following advice in other questions, I downloaded a System Rescue CD ISO, booted from it and ran ddrescue as suggested here to ...
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gddrescue --fill-mode=+ with a map file of 0x00000000 0x608336000 + has left the partition table intact?
I first ran this command:
ddrescue --force /dev/sda /dev/null HGST_RMA.map
I just wanted a map file for blanking (therefore /dev/null). And this is what my .map file looks like before I interrupted ...
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ddrescue very slow, writing to NTFS – is it worth it to convert to Ext4 now?
Two days ago I began the recovery of a 1TB failing HDD which was handed out to me with the hope that I could salvage most of it for a cheap price.
At first it behaved erratically, often being ...
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Hard drive docking station usable for hard drive recovery?
I installed Linux on an old computer along with ddrescue. Instead of placing each broken hard drive in the internal bay, can I use an external docking station with ddrescue?
I'm hesitant to buy a ...
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Why did ddrescue recover img file larger than the original hard drive used space?
So I'm about a week and a half into a ddrescue operation. The failing external hard drive is 2TB, with about 1.8TB of data, mostly photos. Here's what ddrescue is reporting at the moment, still in ...
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ddrescue from drive intermittantly cutting out, ways to automate power cycling via software?
Have a failed Windows/NTFS drive. I was able to connect to another PC via USB-to-IDE cable and recover most of the drive with a Knoppix 7.2 LiveUSB and ddrescue/ddrutitliy. I've recovered most ...
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Using ddrescue to recover a broken drive. Can I check the progress before the run is complete?
I am currently running ddrescue on a drive that failed on me. It's been running for maybe 16 hrs now and is still in the splitting failed blocks stage but has been running at 0 B/s for sometime now. I ...
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Recover specific files from a damaged hard drive
I'm trying to recover some 3-5GB of NEF files which were not yet backed up at the time of the crash.
This is a 418GB ext4 partition and when mounted with -o ro,noload I can list the directory where ...
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Mount ddrescue imaged password protected drive
I'm trying to recover a crashed HD from a Macbook.
I've imaged the HD successfully onto my external HD but when I try to mount it I get a mount_hfs: Invalid argument error. I'm assuming this is ...
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Recovering data from failing hard-drive using ddrescue
Lately my hard-drive have failed me. I'm trying to rescue some important data from it and right now im stuck doing this... I've read about ddrescue data recovery tool and it seems like it's doing its ...
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Trying to mount ddrescue image from a 1tb crashed ntfs drive
I asked this on Ask Ubuntu without success and they recommend to repost it on superuser, so here i am!
It was time, after 5 years my 1tb external drive with all of my family photos and all my music ...
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ddrescue has slowed down massively on os x
I'm using ddrescue to image a drive, and it's slowed down to about .1 % as fast as it started, at this rate I'm not sure if it will even finish, at any rate, I'm not sure I can tie up this machine ...
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