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

[James W. Watts]

Hello everyone,

As Antonio requested, below is a cut-n-paste of the ddrescue log file. It was 
very short, so I
just manually keyed it here:

# Rescue Logfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.3
#      pos        size    status
0x00000000  0x1321301C00    +

Also, Antonio requested that I compare the image files from ddrescue and 
dd_rescue. Unfortunately,
I do not have enough storage on my empty drive to hold both images at the same 
time. Is there a
way to compare them independently? Or could I compare partial images? Like a 
hash of one image
compared against a hash of the other? The damaged drive is 80GB and my rescue 
drive is 120GB.

One thing I noticed in looking at the files that Get Data Back could see in the 
image was that
some of them were from previous data recoveries. I use this drive frequently 
for data recovery. So
as a test, I ran DBAN on the empty drive just to be sure it was wiped clean. 
And yesterday, I
re-ran ddrescue on the damaged drive to create a new image on the DBAN-ed empty 
drive. Today, I
will load the image into Get Data Back and see if that made any difference.

Thank you Jason for the tip with the Mount command. I will try that today on 
the ddrescue image,
as well.

Thank you,

James