Regarding the post from James W. Watts I am curious to hear if it ever went any faster. I started today around 11:00 and at 2:00 I have a measly 32megs from a 500 gig 260 used Western Digital piece o crap.
I swapped it into a new shell and sit here on a macbook pro running ddrescue 1.9 using this as my command sudo ./ddrescue -B -n -v -r1 /dev/disk1 /Volumes/LaCie/testtwo/savepleasetwo.dmg savepleasetwo.log Log file Initial status (read from logfile) rescued: 25857 KiB, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0 Current status rescued: 31170 KiB, errsize: 0 B, current rate: 2148 B/s ipos: 31170 KiB, errors: 0, average rate: 2607 B/s opos: 31170 KiB Copying data... With 0 errors what is up with it's current speed? Did I do something wrong? It's transferring the data to a Lacie Raid 1 terabyte drive as firewire from the WD hd via usb 2.0 Either way I am ultra happy to find a tool that seems to work compared to diskwarrior and the like Hello all, > > I kicked off a recovery this morning of a 200GB IDE hard drive. I issued > the > following command: > > > sudo ddrescue -v -n /dev/sdb /media/wd500gb/blc.img /media/wd500gb/blc.log > > > As you can see below, it is going very slowly. After running all day, it > has > recovered less than 2GB from the drive. Please tell me what I am doing > wrong. I > have started and stopped ddrescue several times and rebooted, > unplugged/plugged > the drives several times, too. But it continues to be slow. > > I keep waiting for ddrescue to just leapfrog past the bad area(s) it is > obviously stuck in, but it just keeps slogging away. How can I make it go > faster? > > At this rate it would take months for the drive to finish recovery. > > Thank you, > > James >
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