Any way of recovering files in my case

TobiSGD · 08-27-2013, 09:19 AM

If you don't have the space this indeed a problem. I/O errors would not be an issue, since ddrescue can handle them properly.

baronobeefdip · 08-27-2013, 08:17 PM

Can you ddrescue a specific directory of the drive. I figure that since I don't have the space for the entire drive I thought that I should only try to rescue the space I am interested in. I want to see if you can use that command to copy files from a location on the drive rather than the entire drive.

TobiSGD · 08-27-2013, 09:55 PM

While ddrescue can copy files I am not sure how it behaves if I/O errors occur in that case. If it operates on whole partitions/disks it will skip over I/O errors, copy the readable data and later try again to to read the damaged sectors. I am not quite sure if that works on filesystem also, you would have to try that.

unSpawn · 08-28-2013, 01:45 AM

ddrescue, dd_rescue, dcfldd, dd, linen and such don't have a concept of "partitions" etc, etc: they just get presented a block device, nibble bits and copy them.

*Wrt errors IMHO it would be best if you by now post dmesg, 'testdisk /debug /log', (whatever that tool was that shows you hard disk HW specs), application stdout / stderr and post detailed (error) messages.