Unable to recover corrupt hard disk data even after ddrescue
by rjay from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6G8NW)
This follows my previous thread on mounting a laptop hard drive. The
1TB drive appears to have been corrupted.
So I bought a 2TB drive and using ddrescue and command like
ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sdc /dev/sdb1 /media/MSI/rescue.logfile. It transfered 85% of the data without errors and then it ended. (The same thing had happened when I tried initially with safecopy, this time with buffer overflow detection- they both took the same time).
The new (cloned is the right word?) drive also gives the same mounting issue of NTFS signature missing with mount -t ntfs-3g. I found the offset with parted command and tried to mount with
pmount offset=1049000 /dev/sdb1. Still did not work.
Please advice as to if I should do something different with ddrescue or with mounting.
Unfortunately, I have not kept the results of the commands to quote them.
1TB drive appears to have been corrupted.
So I bought a 2TB drive and using ddrescue and command like
ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sdc /dev/sdb1 /media/MSI/rescue.logfile. It transfered 85% of the data without errors and then it ended. (The same thing had happened when I tried initially with safecopy, this time with buffer overflow detection- they both took the same time).
The new (cloned is the right word?) drive also gives the same mounting issue of NTFS signature missing with mount -t ntfs-3g. I found the offset with parted command and tried to mount with
pmount offset=1049000 /dev/sdb1. Still did not work.
Please advice as to if I should do something different with ddrescue or with mounting.
Unfortunately, I have not kept the results of the commands to quote them.