Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue to .img file...then what?

[andrew zajac]

jubei <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
> Well guys, I think I'm going to try and do data carving.  I only need to
> recover .doc off of this drive so I'm giving PhotoRec a go.  My image
> unfortunately stopped creating after I guess I flooded my NAS while trying
> PhotoRec (on the new drive - backing up to my nas :( ) on my lunch hour. 
> ddrescue stopped with an I/O error....I think I can restart it from the
> point it left off, right?
Yes, you can.  And you should.  You will have trouble running photorec on the faulty drive since Photorec doesn't handle I/O errors with grace.  Run Photorec on the image you get from Gnue ddrescue.  

Reading from the drive and a broken filesystem are two different problems.  Use the right tool for the right job!


Good
 luck.

Andrew

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