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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
I put mine in FW enclosure. It never mounts. Depending on the phase of the moon, the fire wire bridge chip will reported it as a unformatted drive or will refuse to work with the disk at all. In the latter there is no way you can use this scheme in ext. enclosures at least. Put it back in the original machine, boot it up from external and try again.
How long will it take?!
And with "forever" you mean?
How long will it take?!
Depending on the number and severity of errors on your disk, absolutely. 30 days might even be optimistic. In reality portions of your disk are probably still good and will read very quickly, but the errors slow the whole process down.
How long will it take?! / Done, but it won't mount!
Just as you said, it was only certain parts of the drive that took that long, the rest went much quicker. It's ready now.
Recover a dead hard drive using dd
btw, the terminal command df -k will list the UNIX device name along side the actual mount point (aka. the "real name" for us human beings). Of course the Root drive doesn't have a real name, it's just /
eg.
[me@mycomputer:[~]$] df -k
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