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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: bitzar on Feb 06, '06 10:14:21AM

I've been trying to use dd, dd_rescue and dd_rhelp for about 6 days now to recover an 80GB NTFS drive through OSX on an intel iMac.

The drive always gets to one of 2 points (1.44GB or 4.5GB) and stops responding. The hdd's active light does not indicate any activity and the control c will not stop the program. If I were using dd_rhelp, this is where it would write the log file.

The -r option on dd_rescue does not seem to work to make the job run in reverse, it runs and then finishes the job quickly without copying any data.

The start position parameter does not seem to work either. The dialog immediately following the the command reflects that I entered a start position but the drive still works through from the beginning and pauses at 4.5gb instead of just starting at 5gb.

Did you have a need to experiment with these options? Is there any advice you can provide?

It's been awhile since this poster posted originally, does anybody else have any advice?



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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: melo on May 05, '06 02:53:31AM

Hi,

I did not need to deal with any parameters. I guess I was lucky. I would try the -r but apart from that I sorry I can't help you further.



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