Hi all, A friend of mine gave me his hard disk to try to rescue data from it. It is a 500GB SATA drive which was in an USB enclosure. His machine (Windows XP) is unable to detect it when the enclosure is connected.
I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB. The ISO image generated is about 466GB. However, when I mount the image using mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/image.iso /path/to/mntpt it shows that the mntpt is just 121MB. When I do a listing of the mntpt directory I get: r...@sysresccd /root % ddrescue -v /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso /mnt/windows/rescueLog.txt About to copy 500107 MBytes from /dev/sdb1 to /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso Starting positions: infile = 0 B, outfile = 0 B Copy block size: 128 hard blocks Hard block size: 512 bytes Max_retries: 0 Direct: no Sparse: no Split: yes Truncate: no Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Initial status (read from logfile) rescued: 471251 MB, errsize: 3098 kB, errors: 35 Current status rescued: 500107 MB, errsize: 151 kB, current rate: 0 B/s ipos: 210521 MB, errors: 37, average rate: 679 kB/s opos: 210521 MB, time from last successful read: 6.7 m Finished r...@sysresccd /root % man mount r...@sysresccd /root % mkdir /mnt/windows/rescueDataDump r...@sysresccd /root % ls /mnt backup cdrom custom floppy gentoo livecd memory windows r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso /mnt/cdrom r...@sysresccd /root % ls /mnt/cdrom 〰〹 䝎䑒噌慮?湩㬱 r...@sysresccd /root % du -sch /mnt/cdrom 13K /mnt/cdrom 13K total r...@sysresccd /root % df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 491M 25M 467M 6% / /dev/sr0 121M 121M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom /dev/loop0 194M 194M 0 100% /mnt/livecd tmpfs 491M 25M 467M 6% /mnt/memory udev 10M 164K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 491M 13M 478M 3% /lib/firmware /dev/sda1 1.4T 466G 932G 34% /mnt/windows /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso 121M 121M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom Any advice on how to proceed from here? Or can someone suggest a better method? Thanks .KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org