Hi, I thought I'd write a thank-you note but couldn't find a proper email address so sorry for posting to bug-ddrescue. Thank you!
Had a 10-year old hard disc with badly damaged primary superblock - it has been having some clicking noise for a while, I just ignored it until it died.... Ran ddrescue once with -d -n, then again without -n got me everything back; Then e2fsck on the image itself and it find the 2nd superblock and use it to fix the primary one. fdisk the disk (the disk itself seems to be quite damaged, so I removed the partition and made another partition of the same size but avoiding the damaged 16 sectors at the beginning). Am very surprised to get essentially back to how it was. (except disk geometry is a bit shifted to avoid the damaged sectors). Thanks for a great tool. HTL. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
