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by ppchu9999
11 Feb 2016, 15:39
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: bad sectors on a 1 TB disk
Replies: 3
Views: 2236

Re: bad sectors on a 1 TB disk

not sure if I have the right syntax doing ddrescue,

I am trying to do the 1st 4G or so using


ddrescue -d -r3 -s4000000k /dev/sda4 /index/image.dd

however, I could not do mount on image.dd ,

using mount -o loop,ro /index/image.dd /mnt/img under Ubuntu 15.10

Or is there a correct to take ...
by ppchu9999
11 Feb 2016, 15:35
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: image.dd file cannot go beyond 4GB in size
Replies: 2
Views: 1544

Re: image.dd file cannot go beyond 4GB in size

not sure If I could tell testdisk to generate image.dd say,

the 1st 2G , the next 4 G or something like this , in chunks
by ppchu9999
09 Feb 2016, 02:48
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: image.dd file cannot go beyond 4GB in size
Replies: 2
Views: 1544

image.dd file cannot go beyond 4GB in size

trying to run testdisk , on a FAT32 partition, it cuts me off beyond 4GB in size..

not sure if there is a way to tell it to create multiple image dd files , each less than 4GB.
by ppchu9999
09 Feb 2016, 02:43
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: bad sectors on a 1 TB disk
Replies: 3
Views: 2236

bad sectors on a 1 TB disk

so I have an USB drive with FAT32 on to create the DD image target...

on a HP 1TB drive with bad sectors, NTFS.


trying to create an image.dd file, I think it only goes up to 4G in size, and cuts it off...

Not sure if there is a way to do this, telling it to use multiple DD sizes of less than 4G ...