Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Looking to use Linux for data recovery on a dead XP hard drive

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello James,

James W. Watts wrote:
> - Next, with the damaged drive connected to the Knoppix PC,
> I ran GNU ddrescue to create an image of the entire damaged drive. After a few
> hours, ddrescue successfully finished creating the disk image.

Can you send the logfile produced by ddrescue? It will tell us how many 
data ddrescue recovered and how many errors it found.


> - Confused, I started over and created a new image file.
> This time I used ddr_help (which uses dd_rescue). It faithfully created an
> image, too. I got the same results as before from Get Data Back with this new
> image file. Only a small percentage of the files shows up.


Can you verify if the two images, the one generated by ddrescue and the 
one from dd_rescue are identical? If they are and the logfile tells us 
that there are no read errors, it most probably will be filesystem 
corruption.


Regards,
Antonio.