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Here is what I did to finish the process ....

Hi ducklip

Since you are able to list your files, this is what I suggest...

Find a drive with enough room to receive the files you want to pluck out of the image drive. Mount it. Change directory into it so you don't have to go looking for it while ...

Hello everyone...

I was not able to repair the disk...even though with testdisk I was able to have both BS good and identical and the MBR matched and was good and wrote to disk and rebooted. The disk was still not recognized under Windows nor would it repair the filesystem with chkdsk ...

Good day Fiona,

I now have a copy that I can work on and a Master copy if something goes wrong....

I was told by my friend Andy who has been coaching me with the "ddrescue" operation to proceed in the direction below:

Figure out what partition it is and run tesdisk on the device:

sudo testdisk ...

The copy with ddrescue completed - and I was left with all recovered data but 24mb unrecovered and 3 errors.

I am not able to mount it with ddrescue to view the contents, it seems the file system on the copy is not cooperating and will need repaired first.

The good news is that I have the copy of ...

Okay - The reboot has solved that error and ddrescue is back in business...

It is in the processing of retrying bad sectors and the error size is decreasing as we speak, while the data rescued so far is 747000.

I have 3 gigs still in the process of rescue - which will be many days until completion ...

Here is the latest...

The errsize 49825 mb

rescued 700330 mb

errors 2097141

The program crashed with the message...

"terminate called for after throwing an instance of std ::bad-alloc"

I have been told it was a kernal that caused the crash not ddresuce and that a reboot should rectify the ...

I woke up this morning to find out ddrescue stopped activty, after rescuing 280 gigs of data It stated that the "input file dissappeared"

The good news is that since I had a log file created on my hardrdive I was able to resume the data search where It had left off before the disruption.

onward ...

UPDATE I had to restart ddrescue because of "error writing logfile, no space left on device" :o

I was told to reboot it an THIS TIME to write the log to a usb drive or a hard disk on the computer I'm using. Which was reccomended in the first place but I did'nt do it...

So I am trying again ...

Here is how I was able to begin an image of my bad disk to a good disk - it is still in progress, not yet finished so my fingers are crossed.

Hi ducklip,

The Rescue Remix is a barebones Gnu/Linux toolkit. It's very powerful, but it's not meant to be used by someone who needs a graphical ...

Goodmorning Fiona,
I have begun an image with Ubuntu RescueRemix - ddrescue...I will report more in the "File System repair" Forum -in the "COPY bad DISK thread on how I was able to do that and will update with progress or lack there-of.

Still, thank you very very much for petting my little furry ...