Hi, All. Reon: Sorry, I was wrong, and made a confussion with other ADATA model. Yes, my HDD is an ADATA classic CH11 1TB external USB drive. It is not an SSD drive.
Thanks for your advertisement! Karol. 2014-02-10 2:22 GMT-06:00 Reon Toerien <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > You mentioned earlier that's a ADATA CH11 1TB external USB drive? > > I see no evidence of the CH11 being a SSD online. > > > On 10 February 2014 07:20, Karol Baum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, All. >> I have realized that I have never mentioned that my HDD is a solid state >> one, so without headers, and like a big pendrive... >> Is there any difference with the recovery process from this kind of >> drives? >> Thanks in advance for your help! >> Karol. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Karol Baum <[email protected]> >> Date: 2014-02-05 22:45 GMT-06:00 >> Subject: Damaged Hard Disk: ADATA CH11 1 TB >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> Hi, All. >> First of all, apologize if this is not the correct way to post, in order >> to get information about ddrescue and related tools. I looked for how to >> post this notes but I only find this email account. >> >> I have an external 1 TB USB ADATA Hard Drive, model CH11. >> Probably because of a misconnection, it began to fail. I have bit more >> than 60% of the disk full of information. >> At the very first beginning, the disk continued being recongnized by >> Windows, but loosing only its personalized name. Nevertheless, the access >> to data was impossible, because of a cyclic redundancy check error. >> In Windows Drive Manager, the disk shows with is proper manufacturer name >> and says also that the driver works properly. >> In Windows Disk Manager, the disk was shown as only one healthy >> partition. Nevertheless, the filesystem was shown as RAW. >> Of course, chkdsk did not recongnize the disk. >> I have tried to recover it using many tools, first trying to clone it >> with clonezilla, without results. Also trying to copy the data to another >> TOSHIBA 2 TB HDD with HDD Guru RAW Copy tool, but nothing. Also, I tried >> GetDataBack without success. >> I boot with Ubuntu Live CD and also used GParted, but was not able >> neither to recover the MBR, nor the MFT (may be... because of my >> ignorance...). >> So far, the partition is shown as unallocated in Windows. And each time I >> connect the disk the OS asks me to boot the disk with MRB or GBT. I have >> tried with both, but nothing. Trying to boot again with Ubuntu, the OS says >> that the disk has GBT filesystem, and advise me to use GParted. >> So, actual status: I have used an hexadecimal editor and have seen that >> around the first 8,000 sector appear with "READ ERROR". Then, there is one >> sectorr which seems the MBR copy that NTFS disks always have. The next >> sector seems related to NTDLR. Then, I can find white sectors, then sectors >> "READ ERROR", and sectors with data beginning with "INDX(". I download >> another HEX editor and began to manually copy good sectors from my drive to >> the other editor, saving files with names like this: >> "offset_begin-offset-end". But I was not able to advance so much, and in >> another process the mentioned MBR probably sector was shown as "READ ERROR" >> (but, I have copied it in the previous step). >> >> Finally: I discovered these tools.... >> >> dd >> ddrescue (with lzip and lziprecover) >> ddrecuelog >> rescue-remix >> ddrutility >> ddru_findbad >> ddru_ntfsbitmap >> ddru_ntfsfindbad >> osforensics >> bootmed >> bootmedplus >> Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier >> >> So, I feel that the only thing I have done well was not writing anything >> to the disk. >> Unfortunately, I did not know, till yesterday, that damaged disks become >> worse every time we try to boot them. >> >> So, I understand now what I should have done from the beginning: trace a >> plan to recover my disk. >> >> I want to mentioned that the post between Scott Dwyer and Andrej >> Troventar was very very helpful for me. Unfortunately, I found it the day >> before yesterday ( >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.ddrescue/783 and >> http://osdir.com/ml/bug-ddrescue-gnu/2013-11/msg00009.html). >> >> So, PLEASE: SOS, SOS, SOS, SOS!!!! >> Give me, please, all your advises, and correct all what I will write here >> below. >> >> 1. I understand that my previous step would be carefully reading the GNU >> ddrescue tutorial. >> >> 2. But I am a bit confused which tools I should use and which not; and in >> which order I should use them. >> >> 3. I guess that, may be, my first step with the disk should be running >> ddrescue in reverse mode. >> >> 4. Then, use ddru_ntfsbitmap to create a second domain and use it with >> ddrescue. >> >> From here onwards, I do not know what to do. Honestly, I need to read >> once and twice the documentation. >> >> All your help will be very much appreciate!! >> >> Thanks a lot in advance and best regards! >> >> Karol. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bug-ddrescue mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue >> >> > > > -- > Kind Regards > Reon Toerien > __________________ > PO Box 540 Ballito 4420 South Africa > Tel: +27 (0) 83 270 2889 > email: [email protected] >
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