[gentoo-user] Failed Disk Recovery
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 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Failed Disk Recovery
David Busby wrote: 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 file on a working drive either. You've used 'dd' with conv=noerror? If that succeeds and you still have a vague idea what the partition table looked like, you can try using the latest 'parted' on the resultant file, do help, and then do rescue begin end. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Failed Disk Recovery
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
