Anno domini 2020 Thu, 10 Sep 01:59:08 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > Hello again! > > I told you that you'd miss me when I'm gone. :-] > > Please, I need recommendations or strategies for recovering data. I had a > flash drive become unreadable, after I plugged it into my new printer to > print out some documents that had been long in waiting. Then, before I could > save myself, I had a 1.5 TB hard drive also fail. On this hard drive is > (of course) the source of those backup copies on the flash drive. This is the > partition which I was just about to backup. > > I have several hard drives, from 200 GB up to 8 TB, from 20 years old to > brand-new; all are WD, except for one which is Seagate. Guess which one > failed? I forget when I got it, or why I ever would have got anything but WD, > or why I would have put anything important there. > > I have used ddrescue to try to recover the data, as well as other forensics > tools. Recovered images (img and iso) are saved, and taking up space, but I > cannot determine if there is any useful content in what was recovered. The > failing partition has not been deleted. It cannot be read or mounted, so I > have just left it like that, so that I can try to save it. > > Every attempt to recover the data gives the same result: 2 errors, 3072 B, > that cannot be read. I tried using tools to look inside the saved iso image, > but no luck there. I don't want to erase or format the failing disk partition > until I am sure that I have recovered the data. > > My last hope is that I have another 1.5 TB hard drive; I could try to write > the disk images to that partition before I format the old drive. But first, > of course, I would need to backup materials from that drive, and now I am > running out of space again. you can try "testdisk" on the image - or better on a copy of the image. > > Bill > > > P.S. And if things were not bad enough, the skies here in San Francisco are a > muddy mixture of orange, black, brown and gray. At noon today, it looked like > the middle of the night. > _______________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@... > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@... > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@... To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@...