On 2018.12.18 12:42, Mick wrote:
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So, I used losetup with --offset on the failing drive itself over USB
2.0 and was able to mount and recover all the NTFS files.
I definitely need to read up on that one - I totally unfamiliar with it.
Over the years I've used clonezilla, ddrescue, testdisk, photorec and
losetup to recover files. On a couple of times where data on the
disk had been overwritten by subsequent operations, I was not able to
recover the affected files. So, if when moving the partition data
was overwritten I suspect it will be very difficult to recover this
with conventional software tools. However, it doesn't hurt to try.
:-)
I should be in good shape there. The partition's new location should
have the first half intact, and since the overwriting was of the first
part of the old location, it's second half should be intact. The files
should all be there - but I imagine I might have to play with any
directories which were successfully move, but not the stuff they point
to. Of course, all of this depends on recovering from the read errors
- so ddrescue needs to finish first.
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Regards,
Mick
Jack
