On Thursday 10 September 2020 02:24:49 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks, Nik. I am surprised that I didn't already have that package. 

> > 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.
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