Hi, I am trying to rescue data from a damaged external HDD (WD Elements 3TB). It is a MacOS disk, and I am using ddrescue v1.27 on Linux.
I used the same command switches as I did in my previous ddrescue sessions, but this time the session went slower and slower, running for days. I decided to wait patiently and here is how the display looks now: -------------------------- # ddrescue -f -r 3 /dev/sdc kata-wd.dd map.txt GNU ddrescue 1.27 Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Initial status (read from mapfile) rescued: 2321 GB, tried: 172142 kB, bad-sector: 0 B, bad areas: 0 Current status ipos: 1893 GB, non-trimmed: 735621 kB, current rate: 0 B/s opos: 1893 GB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 0 B/s non-tried: 677953 MB, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 181 B/s rescued: 2321 GB, bad areas: 0, run time: 39d 11h 48m pct rescued: 77.38%, read errors: 8598, remaining time: n/a time since last successful read: n/a Copying non-tried blocks... Pass 5 (forwards) --------------------------- The "non-tried" value decreases and "non-trimmed" increases slowly by same amount, at speed of approximately 20-40Mb per day. I am asking for recommendation what to do. Should I interrupt the process? If so, what to do next? The image file is smaller than the original disk, how can I repair it? Should I try Mac first aid command, or fsck maybe? Or, should I restart the process with a different combination of command switches? Please help. Best regards, Radule