Hi, I am very new to linux/gnu/ddrescue and am simply trying to recover data off of a dieing drive.
Short background info: Windows will recognize my drive but if I try to browse via explorer It will just hang and stop responding. A diagnostic program told me that my drive's multi-zone error rate SMART attribute failed. I used a bootable Knoppix cd and was able to look inside the root of my drive and even successfully read files in the root but It would stop responding if I tried to navigate inside of a directory. Experience with ddrescue: I'm using an RIP Linux disk that has ddrescue on it. I did a simple ddrescue command to clone my entire drive to a blank drive that is of bigger capacity and it started to copy with the number of kB next to "rescued:" steadily going up for about 5 seconds until it hit 42074 kB where it stopped. It's stopped right now at 42074 and it says current rate: 6755 kB/s and average rate: 7012 kB/s and it says "Copying data" at the bottom but I don't think it is because the rescued # isn't increasing. It says 0 errors and 0 errsize. I also tried to do ctrl+c to interrupt it but it doesn't appear to be responding to that. I will shut down my computer for now but is this a bug with ddrescue or does this mean ddrescue simply cannot help my drive? Would you recommend leaving it at the 42074 point for a long time to see if it eventually gets further? I apologize if this isn't the correct list for this question, like I said, I know very little about this stuff. I would appreciate any advice/info VERY much. Thanks. - Daniel _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
