Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Help

[Robert Trevellyan]

Which options did you use with badblocks?


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Kristian Benoit <address@hidden
> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to use ddrescue, with some issue, I hope you can help me.
>
> So here's my process so far:
> My USB hard drive (2 GB) was slow. So I thought of using badblock, after a
> few hours it did not find anything bad, but was still at 0%, so I stopped
> it and the drive was no longer mounting. So a friend of mine suggested to
> use ddrescue. I went to his place and started ddrescue, after a few hours,
> as we were reading it could restart where it was, I decided to do it from
> home so I stopped it (Ctrl-C).
>
> Here's were it starts to go weird:
>
>    1. At home, I restarted with the same command (sudo ddrescue -f -n
>    /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 dd_rescue.log). dd_rescue.log was the copied map
>    from the previous run at my friends place. It was first checking
> something
>    (I dont remember what ?) then it reported being in second (pass/phase ?)
>    and  backward. Something's wrong I should stop it. So I then (Ctrl-C)
> and
>    nothing was happening, it was ignoring (I thought) my Ctrl-C so I pulled
>    the plug after a few minutes.
>    2. I was waiting/searching for more help during a few days and the other
>    day, I accidently try to mount the (backup) hard drive. It told that it
>    failed to mount it, but did not say anything about trying to fix the
>    partition, did it change the change anything to the rescued map ?
>
> Searching for help with the first topic was already hard and now I must
> find some more info. Some help would be appreciated, thanks,
> Kristian
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