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Drive recovery – `ddrescue` hanging

By JamesPosted on February 20, 2023

QUESTION : I’m using ddrescue to recover files from a hard drive. Details: 500GB SATA drive, 2 Partitions (e.g. sdb2, […]

By JamesPosted on December 8, 2022

QUESTION : I’m using ddrescue to image a drive, and it’s slowed down to about .1 % as fast as […]

By JamesPosted on September 7, 2022

QUESTION : I’ve been runnning DDRescue on a 3Tb drive for almost 2 months and I had recovered about 2.8Tb […]

By JamesPosted on June 29, 2022

Problem : I am using ddrescue to recover data from a failing drive. The drive is being read as 596.2 […]

By JamesPosted on June 18, 2022

QUESTION : I’m using ddrescue to recover data from a Seagate Barracuda 3TB drive. The drive is failing, but so […]

By JamesPosted on May 29, 2022

QUESTION : I have a 80gb Maxtor IDE HDD that suddendly fail. I start using ddrescue from systemrescuecd. the cose […]

By JamesPosted on May 13, 2022

QUESTION : I’m trying to rescue a broken harddrive with: sudo ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sda harddisk.img harddisk.logfile (yes, it’s indeed […]