Which options did you use with badblocks?
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Kristian Benoit <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to use ddrescue, with some issue, I hope you can help me. > > So here's my process so far: > My USB hard drive (2 GB) was slow. So I thought of using badblock, after a > few hours it did not find anything bad, but was still at 0%, so I stopped > it and the drive was no longer mounting. So a friend of mine suggested to > use ddrescue. I went to his place and started ddrescue, after a few hours, > as we were reading it could restart where it was, I decided to do it from > home so I stopped it (Ctrl-C). > > Here's were it starts to go weird: > > 1. At home, I restarted with the same command (sudo ddrescue -f -n > /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 dd_rescue.log). dd_rescue.log was the copied map > from the previous run at my friends place. It was first checking > something > (I dont remember what ?) then it reported being in second (pass/phase ?) > and backward. Something's wrong I should stop it. So I then (Ctrl-C) > and > nothing was happening, it was ignoring (I thought) my Ctrl-C so I pulled > the plug after a few minutes. > 2. I was waiting/searching for more help during a few days and the other > day, I accidently try to mount the (backup) hard drive. It told that it > failed to mount it, but did not say anything about trying to fix the > partition, did it change the change anything to the rescued map ? > > Searching for help with the first topic was already hard and now I must > find some more info. Some help would be appreciated, thanks, > Kristian > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
