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by kamikade
04 Jun 2018, 13:49
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Failing to boot partition on clone of corrupted disk
Replies: 3
Views: 3824

Re: Failing to boot partition on clone of corrupted disk

thanks for your reply!

Yes, I cloned a 2TB drive to a 4TB drive using ddrescue. Is that a problem? I thought a larger drive would be fine...

When I try to run fsck (I used /sbin/fsck_hfs -f /dev/disk1) I get a "hfs_ValidateHFSPlusVolumeHeader: unknown Volume Signature" message.
by kamikade
28 May 2018, 09:26
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Failing to boot partition on clone of corrupted disk
Replies: 3
Views: 3824

Failing to boot partition on clone of corrupted disk

Hi everybody,
I dropped an external drive while it was running, after which I could mount the disk in mac os but it was only possible to open or copy single files and the disk stopped working causing Finder to freeze more than often. So I decided to clone the disk with ddrescue. This great tool wasn ...