Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Rescued: 0 , what next?

[David Balažic]

The kernel is ruining this plan by trying to read the partition table
each time I connect the drive (USB cable).
Can it be prevented from that (besides by patching it)?

Regards,
David

On 23 August 2016 at 15:21, Paul Daniels <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd try power cycling and see if you can get a sample of data from various
> points on the drive ( try every 50GB).  Some drives, once they go in to fail
> mode, you can't get anything more off them without cycling.  I ended up
> building a USB controllable SATA power switch just so I can handle such
> drives.
>
> something like....    ddrescue -v -f -i 50G -s 1G /dev/sde clone log
>
> ( and then -i 100G,  etc )
>
>
>
>
>
> On 23/08/16 23:08, David Balažic wrote:
>>
>> I put the files on external servers:
>>
>> hdparm -I output : http://pasted.co/d61d1570
>> dmesg: http://pasted.co/a2481e14
>> smartctl -a : http://pasted.co/aead2cc3
>>
>>
>> On 23 August 2016 at 01:38, Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> Please, don't attach large uncompressed files:
>>>
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 205619 2016-08-23 01:01 dmesg
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1   8791 2016-08-23 01:01 dmesg.lz
>>>
>>>
>>> David Balažic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I tried to save some data from a broken HDD with ddrescue, but after 8
>>>> days it still says rescued: 0
>>>>
>>>> What options are left?
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems this HDD is totally dead. Have you tried to put it in the
>>> freezer?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Antonio.
>>>
>>>
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