[ale] Extreme Practical Data Recovery (Part 2)

[Raylynn A. Knight]

Anyone have any experience using any of these tools for recovering jpegs
from a drive formatted for Mac OSX?  My daughter has not been backing up
her system as she was taught.  So I now have an 80 GB Seagate Momentus
drive from her Mac Mini that is failing and 18 months worth of photos to
recover.

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 08:46 -0400, Robert Coggins wrote:
> So, this thread came at the perfect time. I am having to recover 
> someone's laptop HDD here and it looks to be a mess.
> 
> I have been taking suggestions from the previous thread for recovering 
> data.  PhotoRec is awesome and gddrescue is looking good too.  However, 
> I wanted to know your experiences with ddrescue.  I know it can take 
> days sometime to copy a drive depending on how bad the condition of the 
> drive it.  But I was wondering.  What is typical?  Should I plan on 
> keeping this drive and  computer I am recovering with out for a week or 
> so?  Once it is past the bad sectors does the speed pick back up?
> 
> I am asking becuse this run at ddrescue has been running almost 24 hours 
> now and I am at 3.5 gigs of 80.  I am hoping it will pick back up soon.
> 
> Another question.  My HDD problems seem to be at the beginning of the 
> drive.  Is there a way to run photorec or something from the end of the 
> drive?
> 
> Thanks for you input!
> 
> Robert
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