Zac Medico wrote:
David Busby wrote:
List,
I've got a HDD that's failed, seems to have lost partition table.
When I say sfdisk -l or -d it can't read and I see IO errors in dmesg
output, can't read sector XX. I can't get dd to dump from that drive to
I have a few tools bookmarked that should work better than dd. Most of these
tools allow you to merge results from multiple passes in order to recover more
data.
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/badblock_guess/
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
http://www.vanheusden.com/recoverdm/
ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/people/rgooch/linux/disc-recovery-utils-current.tgz
And of course, don't forget to do backups before the disk goes bad next time
;-).
Zac
file on a working drive either. It's an NTFS drive that Windows can't
see at all. What other options do I have to recover data? ntfsprogs
testdisk haven't been helpful either. Anyone have ideas?
/djb
Testdisk got me my partitions back a few times:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
Eugene.
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