On 19/08/16 00:08, Rob Owens wrote:
I don't know the answer to your read-only question. But having done some data recovery in the past, I've found that attaching the drive via USB and sitting the drive in the freezer during recovery can help in situations like this. Also, besides ddrescue you can also take a look at photorec (part of the testdisk package).
+2 for the freezer. I've used a long USB and power lead, put the drive in a ziplock bag with some silica gel, pulled as much air as possible out and sealed it up with duct tape. Done this on about 3 drives over the years and had great results. Only on drives where they exhibited thermal issues though.
I've never done a filesystem recovery on a dying drive for fear of further damage. I _always_ image using ddrescue and deal with the filesystem issues on the clone.
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