On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:32 PM Jack <ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > ddrescue has now been running for almost 22 hours, and it's been 47 > seconds less than that since its last successful read.
There is of course no guarantee that it will EVER successfully read all your data. You might be able to tell it to skip blocks and move on. Obviously all it can do is keep asking the drive to try again. If you want better than that then you're talking clean room rescue measures. > I did one run of testdisk on one partition on the drive months ago. > One problem is that the extension on the recovered files is not > necessarily the original extension (even if the file is actually > recoverable) and there seem to be some file types is doesn't (or didn't > then) know about. I may well try it again after much more reading on > tuning its behavior. Even in the best of circumstances this sort of approach is painstaking. If that drive has the only photos of your kid's birth it might be worth the trouble to you. If you're trying to rescue your bittorrent collection I'd suggest moving on. Or you can try to pay somebody to do it for you. There is a reason those recovery companies charge an arm and a leg. People who are desperate enough to need their services don't have many other options... -- Rich
