Hi, Looking for some advice.
Running a recovery on my failing 160GB Windows NTFS laptop drive (that has no file system detected any more! Eeeek. If I can get the 1s and 0s though, I have some great NTFS file recovery software at my disposal, so got the best chance of recovery available to me). I'm using a Linux Mint 8 machine with ddrescue 1.15RC1 to attempt to capture the whole drive. I ran the command with the new skip ahead on slow areas filter set (-a from memory?) with no splitting to an image file on a EXT4 partition. It captured some chunks fast, and skips vast swathes that were transferring slowly at around 300KB/s. Then at one point I wanted to reboot the machine. However, when I restarted ddrescue, I copied the same command as before, but accidentally forgot to change the operating directory first!!! Therefore it started a new image file and log file! WHOOPS! Fortunately, because I'd incremented the input start location, it at least captured a new area of the drive into the new image and log file (again a mix of good data, and slow skipped areas). I was only alerted to mistake quite a while later when that partition ran out of space so the capture had to be aborted. So now I have two partial images of the drive that mostly don't overlap... and two matching log files to go with them that define the good areas and slow areas skipped. To minimise stress on the failing drive I've completely disconnected it for now whilst I work out how to merge the two images and log files, so that I can carry on running a no split run on the damaged drive but without having to recapture an area that is already in either image. There is an example in the help file about something similar, but I didn't exactly follow it, or whether I need to mount one of the image files as a drive first? Before risking messing things up further, I wanted to check exactly how I should handle this first. Kicking myself for not changing directories before the second run... Mike PS the new features of RC1 are great and are working as expected for me with no problems. The only problems I'm facing are operator induced! ;O) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Merging-two-images-from-the-same-recovery....-tp33002600p33002600.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
