Dominique Dumont wrote: > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Find a way to attach that drive to a functional system. One way would >> be to use a 2.5" portable USB enclosure. > > No. from my experience USB will hang if the drive hit a wrong sector. >
I had inserted the disk in an enclosure and connected to the G4 (with new hard disk and new OS X 10.4) via Firewire cable. As there was lots of space on the new HDD, I thought why not compile ddrescue and get the image on the G4's new hard disk straight away! So I left the G4 running with ddrescue trying to read the old hard disk over the weekend. On Monday, it showed 149kB of successfully transfered data along with 30MB of erroneous data! Just as a last ditch effort before calling some data recovery service company, I thought why not give it a try on the Linux box (which was able to mount it read-only, the G4 didn't even do that!). The Linux box is reading the disk connected via USB and had finished about 9GB by the time I left without any errors. Now the only problem is that the disk is 38GB whereas I had only 32GB free on the Linux box! Need to take my external 500GB disk along tomorrow. > You should: > - attach the disk to an internal IDE (or sata) cable > - use dd_rescue to copy the image to a file (can be long) (or > gddrescue) > - fsck the copied image. > > Do not run fsck on a failing disk, it will make thing worse. > > HTH > The .img image(38GB) that ddrescue is creating, do I use fsck.hfsplus on it or just fsck? Thanks KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]