Re: [Bug-ddrescue] NTFS recovery partition corrupt after imaging

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On 12/5/07, Strykar  wrote:
> > Strykar wrote:
> > > It finished imaging the entire drive with zero errors
> > > [...]
> > > When I run ntfsfix on it, it tells me the FS is corrupted.
> > > Loading the rescue disk under Windows tells me that it needs a
> > format.
> > >
> > > This has happened a bunch of times, what am I doing wrong?
> >
> > If the copy is done without error and the filesystem in the copy is
> > corrupted, I suspect the filesystem is corrupted in the original.
> > Ddrescue can't solve that.
>
> The drive was disconnected the second it started to behave patchy, and never
> loaded R/W after that, I seriously doubt the FS is corrupted.
> Is my partitioning of the rescue disk the correct way of going about it?
> Is there anything else I could do, I didn't setup backups and have photos on
> it from over a decade ago, any ideas would be highly appreciated.
>

Does ddrescue have any trouble with NTFS drives with the 'dirty' bit
set (http://www.buildorbuy.org/dirtybit.html)?

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