Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Proceeding further after running ddrescue .

[andrew zajac]

Hi Shehab.

First, I would make a backup of the image.  Then I would try running Testdisk on the image, to see if it can find and restore any partitions.

If that fails, of if the newly recovered partitions are still unmountable due to filesystem corruption, I would use Photorec (included with the Testdisk package) to try to carve files form the image.

That's it...

Andrew


--- On Mon, 10/18/10, Shehab Kazi <address@hidden> wrote:

From: Shehab Kazi <address@hidden>
Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Proceeding further after running ddrescue .
To: address@hidden
Received: Monday, October 18, 2010, 7:08 AM

Hi!

I have a 'corrupt' 4GB usb memory stick that Windows says needs to be formatted. Linux (Debian Lenny) recognises it as /dev/sdc but will not mount it giving a very general mount error.

I was able to run 'dd' without any problems and made an image backup. I then ran 'ddrescue' as well to make another image without any problems (though I'm not sure if it was even necessary to run 'ddrescue in my case). So maybe the data itself is fine but only the partition table is corrupt?

When I had tried to run 'testdisk' on the memory stick, it returns saying that it can't find any partitions on the drive. I read some posts on this forum about trying to use data carving tools on the image like 'foremost'. I will try that when I get home but was wondering if someone has some more advice on how I should proceed. I need to access/rescue the files that are stored on the image created with ddrescue/dd.

Any help will be appreciated. I understand that ddrescue is doing its job and I need help with what to do with the rescued image.

Best wishes,

Shehab.

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