A friend of mine gave me his hard disk to try to rescue data from it. It
is a 500GB SATA drive which was in an USB enclosure. His machine
(Windows XP) is unable to detect it when the enclosure is connected.
I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue of
the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process tells me
that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB.
The ISO image generated is about 466GB. However, when I mount the image
using
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/image.iso /path/to/mntpt
it shows that the mntpt is just 121MB.
When I do a listing of the mntpt directory I get:
About to copy 500107 MBytes from /dev/sdb1 to /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso
Starting positions: infile = 0 B, outfile = 0 B
Copy block size: 128 hard blocks
Hard block size: 512 bytes
Max_retries: 0
Direct: no Sparse: no Split: yes Truncate: no
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 471251 MB, errsize: 3098 kB, errors: 35
Current status
rescued: 500107 MB, errsize: 151 kB, current rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 210521 MB, errors: 37, average rate: 679 kB/s
opos: 210521 MB, time from last successful read: 6.7 m
Finished
root@sysresccd /root % man mount
root@sysresccd /root % mkdir /mnt/windows/rescueDataDump
root@sysresccd /root % ls /mnt
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root@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660
/mnt/windows/rescueData.iso /mnt/cdrom
root@sysresccd /root % ls /mnt/cdrom
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root@sysresccd /root % du -sch /mnt/cdrom
13K /mnt/cdrom
13K total
root@sysresccd /root % df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 491M 25M 467M 6% /
/dev/sr0 121M 121M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/loop0 194M 194M 0 100% /mnt/livecd
tmpfs 491M 25M 467M 6% /mnt/memory
udev 10M 164K 9.9M 2% /dev
tmpfs 491M 13M 478M 3% /lib/firmware
/dev/sda1 1.4T 466G 932G 34% /mnt/windows
/mnt/windows/rescueData.iso
121M 121M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
Any advice on how to proceed from here? Or can someone suggest a better
method?
Thanks
.KS.
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Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the
subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am
surprised that this actually works.
Do you expect this kind of characters or is it just "garbage" (from your
point if view)?
> Any advice on how to proceed from here? Or can someone suggest a better
> method?
It depends on what you want to achieve. If all you want is to rescue
personal documents, images and the like, I suggest you to try photorec
from the testdisk package. It can recover many files of different types
from otherwise unusable filesystems.
J.
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