Dear Nate,
I think you might be writing to the wrong list, but I can give you a few
generic advices, hoping that they will be of help to you:
* If you create an image from a damaged drive, DO NOT perform
repair-operations on this image, but make another copy (e.g. dd the
image onto a working drive) and try to repair that copy. This way you
will not lose additional data if your repair tool screws up, because
your first (44 hours worth) copy is still preserved without any
additional damage.
* It is not obvious to me which instructions you were following, and it
is also possible that you made a mistake when typing / copying the
commands - so in general its a good idea to provide the command line you
ran and maybe some output (was all data recovered? were there unreadable
sectors? etc.). This way people can better understand what you did and
give you more specific support.
Regarding your problem to open the dmg-file I would assume that you
maybe copied the entire drive's content into the image - including the
partition table. This might prevent the dmg-file from being directly
accessible (because the partition table is 'in the way'). The error
message seems to indicate a different cause (as it doesn't complain
about the content of the file but about an i/o-error), but (fortunately)
our Mac customers didn't provide me with this kind of problem yet, so I
don't have further suggestions on this.
If my guess about the partition table is correct, you might be able to
access the data after copying the image back onto a working drive - but
(as you didn't provide additional information) it's of course also
possible that a major part of the drive was not readable and you will
need to repair the filesystem structure first. For that you will need
tools other than ddrescue.
Kind Regards
Felix
On 16.05.2012 18:45, Nate Wood wrote:
Not sure if this is the right forum to ask as this is not a bug so I
apologize if it is not. Just desperate for help at this point.
I used ddrescue for a Mac server and created a 445GB .dmg file as the
instructions showed how. However, when I continue the instructions
and try to mount I get this error:
mount_hfs: Input/output error
I can do some digging of course and will but after waiting 44 hours
for this file to be created my heart sank when I got this message.
If anybody can help I'd appreciate it. And if this the wrong forum
please let me know that too.
Thanks.
Nate
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