Thank you. I created the image using DDRescue in almost 11 hours, it completely finished and it seems that every bit of data was succesfully recovered. Now, how can I access these files from Windows? It's an .img file, I couldn't open it with Daemon Tools Lite when I tried. What can I do?recuperation wrote: ↑08 Jan 2021, 21:48(CrystalDiskInfo shows that everything's alright with it)
Even though I don't understand every attribute I would recommend you duplicating the drive using ddrescue as described in the manual.
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You can pass that file as an argument to Testdisk.
If you used the log file feature you can check where the duplication process might have failed.
If you used the log file feature you can check where the duplication process might have failed.
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If you have this log in mind, there it is:recuperation wrote: ↑09 Jan 2021, 23:00 You can pass that file as an argument to Testdisk.
If you used the log file feature you can check where the duplication process might have failed.
# Mapfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.23
# Command line: ddrescue -d -r 3 /dev/sdc /media/mint/30BEA0CBBEA08AC4/hddimage/drive.img /media/mint/30BEA0CBBEA08AC4/hddimage/drive.log
# Start time: 2021-01-09 09:50:18
# Current time: 2021-01-09 19:59:29
# Finished
# current_pos current_status current_pass
0x7470C00000 + 1
# pos size status
0x00000000 0x7470C06000 +
And how can I pass that file as an argument to TestDisk? What does that mean? Sorry, I'm not very familliar with these things...
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Why are you refering to the ddrescue log file now?
In your posting you were talking about the duplicate that you created as an image file.
In your posting you were talking about the duplicate that you created as an image file.
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You were talking about log in your previous post so I copied info from DDRescue log here, maybe it was not what you were talking about?recuperation wrote: ↑10 Jan 2021, 13:47 Why are you refering to the ddrescue log file now?
In your posting you were talking about the duplicate that you created as an image file.
For me the most important thing is to get my data from that HDD and how can I do that from this DDRescue image file?
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My first sentence refers to the duplicate of your drive that you created as a file and not as a direct disc to disc copy.recuperation wrote: ↑09 Jan 2021, 23:00 You can pass that file as an argument to Testdisk.
If you used the log file feature you can check where the duplication process might have failed.
My second sentence refers to the log file of your duplicating program ddrescue. This log file gives you information about the duplicating process - it looks perfect.
Testdisk needs something given to work upon. Testdisk cannot do anything with the log file of the imaging process - only with the file image itself.
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Okay, so if to go back to my question, what does that mean that I should pass that duplicate as an argument to Testdisk? How to do that actually? Maybe it's possible to explain step-by-step?..recuperation wrote: ↑10 Jan 2021, 14:01My first sentence refers to the duplicate of your drive that you created as a file and not as a direct disc to disc copy.recuperation wrote: ↑09 Jan 2021, 23:00 You can pass that file as an argument to Testdisk.
If you used the log file feature you can check where the duplication process might have failed.
My second sentence refers to the log file of your duplicating program ddrescue. This log file gives you information about the duplicating process - it looks perfect.
Testdisk needs something given to work upon. Testdisk cannot do anything with the log file of the imaging process - only with the file image itself.
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manual
17.1.2 Device selection
17.1.2 Device selection