[ale] gddrescue

[Alex Carver]

It's doing pretty well so far.  It claims to have recovered 1.3 GB on
the first pass thus far (the drive is about 4 GB I think).  Any
suggestions for a recovery tool for NTFS partitions?  The drive was for
an old Windows laptop that I kept to run older Win-only programs.

On 2016-08-09 20:52, dev null zero two wrote:
> yes. store image file and log file on known good disk. try with -n first to grab 
> as much good data as possible first in the case of the drive getting worse over 
> time. afterwards try without -n and then play with other parameters. use a 
> logical data recovery tool on the resulting image if there was moderate physical 
> damage and the image file is incomplete.
> 
> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
> 
> 
> On Aug 9, 2016 11:46 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net 
> <mailto:agcarver%2Bale at acarver.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Ok, having to rescue a disk because it failed before I had an
>     opportunity to back it up.  So I'm going to try the gddrescue route
>     because it looks like it hit the limit of reallocatable sectors and now
>     just spews logical block errors and sense errors.
> 
>     My reading of gddrescue is almost a set-and-wait approach.  It behaves
>     automagically tearing through the faulty drive scraping up whatever it
>     can.  Is that a reasonable assessment?
> 
>     I am generating an image file using it so I presume I could just mount
>     the image file as if it were a disk in order to get to the data.