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Ddrescue is awesome

• jacquesm 3y ago
  What impresses me about it is that it just 'fire and forget'. It takes a while to run (a few weeks, in my case) but it will do its level best to get your data off the drive and to see the amount of unrecoverable space slink steadily over the days was really neat. In the end I think it recovered 99.9% or so of the drive but the directory structure was still damaged so much that whole sections of the tree were gone. But without ddrescue only a few 10's of files were visible. If the original owner of the drive had not tried to recover the data themselves first I'm fairly sure that I would have been able to retrieve even more of it because connecting the crashed drive to a windows laptop probably caused it to try to write to the crashed drive (there is no prompt to mount a drive RO before mounting it on windows).