Hello, I have a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 (120 GB) that seems to have developed some bad sectors. I cannot access this drive from Windows XP (the log shows that it has bad blocks); however the BIOS recognizes the drive correctly.
After a little research, I tried connecting the drive directly to a working system and booted up Knoppix. The 'smartctl' command says that there have been 61 Reallocated Sectors and 2 Offline Uucorrectable Sectors (e.g. 'UNC @ LBA 0x00000056 = 86', etc.). Since the drive was in a USB external case, I was unaware of any warning signs from SMART. I would like to recover as much data as possible, but since I'm afraid that the bad sectors have affected the NTFS file system, I'm not sure how I can mount the drive after using using ddrescue to image the bad drive onto a new drive. Here is my plan: 1. Format new drive using 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/newdrive' 2. Use ddrescue to make image as fast as possible: ddrescue -B -n /dev/baddrive /dev/newdrive /media/usbflashdrive/logfile 3. Try to mount /dev/newdrive ??? 4. If I it cannot be mounted, use PhotoRec to recover files ??? Would this work? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
