So, a friend gave me a dying 500GB 2.5" SATA hard drive, with a Mac OS X HFS+ filesystem on it, to see if I could get the data off. There are some family photos they need to recover. So, I connected the drive to my Linux system, using my external hard drive enclosure, and used ddrescue 1.19 to recover what data it could. Throughout the recovery process, the drive made clicking and various other sounds, so I know the drive was close to death. After about almost 9 days, ddrescue stopped and reported the 'input file disappeared'. I interpreted that to mean the dying hard drive finally "gave up the ghost" and ddrescue couldn't read from it anymore. This was during pass 2 or reading non-tried blocks.
Anyway, ddrescue reported successfully recovering 133GB of the 500GB of data. The file, to which I did the recovery, is 500GB but ddrescue reported recovering 133GB of it. After ddrescue stopped running, due to the "input file" disappearing, I tried to mount the file it created and failed because no HFS+ superblock could be found by the "mount" command. My question: does the fact that the HFS+ superblock not being found by the "mount" command mean the data file I have is useless and I simply can't get to the data ddrescue did recover? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance! Peace... Tom -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
