Hello, Can creating an image of failing hard drive cause damage by scratching the platters' surface?
I once opened a hard drive that was dropped and I saw a circle scratch on platters. It seems that because of the mechanical shock during the fall the read heads got twisted and were scratching the platters while the drive was running. This removes the magnetic layer and obviously causes total data loss. Is it theoretically possible that ddrescue shows progress while creating an image of a dropped drive, but at the same time the heads are permanently damaging the drive (e.g. by scratching it)? Which means it is better to replace the heads instead of trying to image the disk in such a case? Thank you! _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
