Hello, I sent a post last week asking for help rescuing my friend's dead XP NTFS hard drive via ddrescue on Knoppix. I'm still working on it. Wanted to ask about ddrescue's options. Specifically, here is the command I issue in Knoppix. I'm writing the image onto a freshly DBAN'ed and NTFS-partitioned hard drive with plenty of space to hold the complete image of the damaged drive.
sudo ddrescue --max-retries=3 --verbose /damaged_drive /rescue_drive/rescue.img /rescue_drive/rescue_log.txt These options have produced several workable images for me in the past. And even this time, I'm getting a successful read (with no errors) of the damaged drive -- all 80GB of it. But maybe this command needs revision. What command options do you use? Anything more strict? Please examine this command and let me know what you think. Last week, Antonio suggested that the filesystem could be damaged. And Jason suggested using The Sleuthkit (TSK) for potential diagnosis/recovery. I downloaded TSK and read through the documentation. But I did not see which tools could locate and/or repair a damaged NTFS partition. How can you fix a damaged NTFS partition when you're working with an image file? Thank you, James _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
