Hi Antonio, I have a hard disk that simply won't be recognised by the PC'sBios. So it won't mount either.
However, it might be possible that the problem is that the hard disk has failed in the areas where it stores the information that it reports to the PC's Bios. So the hard disk can not be mounted, even though it might have undamaged data on most of its other areas. I found the following comment on a website; "I cannot imagine anything that could recover data from a /dev that isn't there." ref: http://forum.cgsecurity.org/phpBB3/dev-disappears-using-dd-rescue-t1183.html Is this comment totally correct? If not, then if there are ways to access a hard disk that is not recognised by either the OS, mount command, PC Bios Auto detect, PC Bios manual user settings, then ; Q1) is it possible to either include information on how to access the hard disk, then use dd_rescue? or even better, Q2) is it possible to have some features in dd_rescue that could attempt to access a device attached to a port or group of ports on a PC, and maybe extract the data somehow? Yours Al _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
