Re: OT: Help with Damaged data on a hard drive

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel Hill
On 11/07/10 10:31, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sat 10 Jul 2010 12:37:22 NZST +1200, Daniel Hill wrote: Sounds to me like the disk is dead because it's got read error, do you reckon the USB-SATA adapter will be fine I couldn't use a direct connection to my computer because I didn't have a spare S

Re: OT: Help with Damaged data on a hard drive

2010-07-10 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 10 Jul 2010 12:37:22 NZST +1200, Daniel Hill wrote: Sounds to me like the disk is dead because it's got read error, not because the sata plug broke. No amount of data damage you can do with a broken plug would affect read performance with dd once you connect it up properly. You don't even n

OT: Help with Damaged data on a hard drive

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
my friend had a external hard (250GB) and the SATA plug broke he didn't know this for a while, so there is now corrupt data on the drive (broken partition table and some other stuff) I've finally backed up the data (>69h copy time) with GNU ddrescue here's the problem, the best option is to m