I have been working on a new utility that could potentially use ddrescue
to read only the used portion of a NTFS disk. It works by extracting the
bitmap file and then creating a custom logfile to work from. (One of the
neat things about this is that it has put me a few steps closer to
actually being able to extract individual files from a failing NTFS
disk, using raw reads with ddrescue and processing parts of the MFT.) I
have a working test version right now that shows the concept can be
done. However…
I have hit a major road block. Actually I have come up to a deep ravine
and there is a rope walking bridge, and I need to drive a semi truck
across it. So I need to build a new bridge from scratch. Since I am not
technically a programmer, I don’t know any good languages and have been
doing everything in bash script. But bash is just way too slow to do
what I need. I can see I need to teach myself C, which isn’t going to
happen overnight.
Until I can learn C, I could use a bit of help from someone. I have a
small bash script that I need converted to something much faster. If
that could be done then I could produce a working alpha version for the
masses to try out. More info can be found at the home for my ddrutility
program on the Ubutu forum. Or I could email what I need to someone. The
script is commented fairly well, and there is a readme file with it.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Scott
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