On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Tom Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
Input file disappearing doesn't nessisarily mean it's dead-dead just yet, it might have just been kicked off the bus due to errors. Try powering it off and plugging it back after a bit, if it comes back up you can resume running ddrescue and possibly get a bit more data (assuming you created a proper logfile). -- Sebastian Southen Systems Administrator, Murdoch IT Society _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
