[ale] gddrescue

[dev null zero two]

R-Studio or Getdataback but they're commercial Windows programs. not sure
about Linux native F/OSS that support NTFS but I'm sure a few exist. just
Google for "open source NTFS logical data recovery tool". forensicswiki is
a decent resource but probably out of date.

Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.

On Aug 10, 2016 12:41 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
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