Hello, I am trying to recover data from a failed drive. An initial attempt with dd took over 12 hours and it was not even at half of the 80GB damaged drive; so I quit. Info on the web pointed me to ddrescue
ddrescue -n /dev/sda /dev/sdc rescued.log which has taken over 6 hours so far Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Initial status (read from logfile) rescued: 0 B, errsize: 0 B, errors: 0 Current status rescued: 58656 MB, errsize: 4408 kB, current rate: 4096 B/s ipos: 58660 MB, errors: 32, average rate: 2958 kB/s opos: 58660 MB, time from last successful read: 0 s Copying non-tried blocks... The "current rate" varies and sometimes is down to a few B/s! Is this normal? The drive copied to is a USB external drive. Thanks for inputs. -- Valmor