Hi guys, Thanks for the help and encouragement. The imaging of the drive is going well (saved ~45 Gb so far with less 1% errors and clipping along at about 1MB per sec after I added -c 64 and -d qualifiers to ddrescue) . Given that the entire drive 250GB was not close to full the question is can I stop ddrescue at some point, make a copy of what I have so far, and perform testdisk, fsck, and mount etc. to that copy? I know that would cost me whatever data might have been spread out into the last unimaged portion of the original NTFS partition but would it even work?
In other words, can effective repairs be performed on a image of a portion of a NTFS partition? Even if this idea is faulty I can always resume the ddrescue where I left off. Thanks Ken On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 -0700, "andrew zajac" <[email protected]> wrote: It's far from useless. You can image the drive and mount the partition on the image using an offset. Assuming you imaged the drive (sdb) to a file named "image" in the current directory, you can do: mkdir mnt sudo mount -t ntfs -o r,loop,offset=32256 file mnt See here for more details: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#Mounting%20partiti ons%20on%20the%20image --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Ken A Scott <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ken A Scott <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Testdisk sees what ddrescue does not To: [email protected] Received: Friday, June 12, 2009, 2:45 PM I have a troubled disk which won't mount in Linux (or boot up to XP which is what it is). The 'testdisk' utility correctly indentifies the partitions (a large 233GB NTFS Windows partition and a small 11GB recovery partition => total size 250GB) and can show actual files on on the windows partition but can't write the partition table to the disk. ddrescue 1.2-1.3 (on a MEPIS system) with the following command $ddrescue --no-split /dev/sdb1 imagefile logfile says 'cannot open input file:No such file or directory' Since cat /proc/partitions shows a sdb entry '8 16 244198584' I was able to start the above command with just $ddrescue --no-split /dev/sdb imagefile logfile but I'm not sure if it is useful (since I know there to be actually two partitions there). Any advice? Thanks in advance! Ken -- Ken A Scott [email protected] -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [1][email protected] [2]http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue _________________________________________________________ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! [3]Get it Now for Free! References 1. file://localhost/mc/[email protected] 2. http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue 3. http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ -- Ken A Scott [email protected]
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