Hi, I have a 5TB drive and have tried mirroring it on to another drive using ddrescue, but its got slower and slower, showing 159days eventually with the machine freezing. But it has not shown any bad sectors only read error.
I am interested in recovering specific directories or as many files within those directories as possible. I would also like continuing to mirror any read sectors to the second disk.
Is this possible with TestDisk ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron
NTFS Directory recovery
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Re: NTFS Directory recovery
If the related metdata can be read out yes, otherwise no.AaronNGray wrote: 04 May 2025, 20:56 Hi, I have a 5TB drive and have tried mirroring it on to another drive using ddrescue, but its got slower and slower, showing 159days eventually with the machine freezing. But it has not shown any bad sectors only read error.
I am interested in recovering specific directories or as many files within those directories as possible.
Nobody is preventing you from doing so.
I would also like continuing to mirror any read sectors to the second disk.
Is this possible with TestDisk ?
Many thanks in advance,
Aaron