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DR Cie? Data Recovery...Cie? french for business?
I appreciate the consideration...and I wish I could take you up on the offer.. Thanks.


Peace,
Lynny

Illinois, United States. Why do you ask?


Peace,
Lynny

Your english is fine, I understood. I was just trying to come up with ideas for how to script the process..brainstorming..

It has always come back without having to power cycle the drive...at least so far..so a script, like I said that would check fdisk output to see when it was back, could work ...

I haven't messed with it for a few days, but I initially tried your parameters..neither gave anything. The program just spat out some text, and went right back to the prompt. I tried each seperately, same thing..took them out and it worked as before.

I may have to work on a script, but I'm so, so ...

Yeah, don't get me started on that encryption BS..I have the encryption/IO interface on the drive, its just not in its original enclosure.

ddrescue is doing its thing...but...I need a script..a batch file..something to automate this process...

I start it with

ddrescue -v /dev/sdd1 /mnt/backup ...

Interesting, Remy, thank you. I will certainly look into ddrescue. I can't believe that a relatively brand new drive would fail like that..really shakes my faith in WD..again...I hope they will cover the drive under warranty..even though I removed it from the enclosure...the drive itself should ...

I've tried to copy data from it, using testdisk. Its very slow, and unreliable..as in, it shows you nothing of its progress, success, or failure..
and eventually, it does fail, and gives a big, long stream of failed to copy file blah blah...but it does copy some!?
I have a 1.5 T music collection on ...

Testdisk is running from a root prompt on the rescueCD...



Peace,
Lynny

I'm running testdisk from a linux based rescueCD. I've managed to get the drive to mount, once, and more than once I've been able to see the data on the drive with Testdisk. I still have no success when I try to WRITE, or rebuild the MBR/MFT...

I'm not sure how Testdisk ran, I guess I assumed root ...

I finally created a bootable "RescueCD" disc, and ran testdisk from it, and WOW...there are all my files and data..still there..I thought they were lost forever...but...nothing I've been able to do from within Testdisk will restore the disc to normal function...ie windows still doesn't see it, the ...