Comments on: Recover Data From a dead hard drive using ddrescue

By: ady

ady — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:05:23 +0000

Hello .. my hard dive it totally dead .. even reinstall the window ..can find the hard drive but won’t able to see the file .. is anyways can able the get those files back

By: Name

Name — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:47:59 +0000

“/dev/sda2/backup.img”

This won’t work. You need to either copy onto /dev/sda2 or, if /dev/sda2 is mounted, copy it to /mount_point/backup.img.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:50:08 +0000

hi!
my fujetsu harddrive died its clicking and not recognized by my computer can this soft help ??
for more info its a S-ata 2.5 hdd 250gb model mhy2250bh(b) firmware 0080890b
your help is verry welcom
thx .

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:02:30 +0000

Are you guys kidding me? Recovering data from a working drive is easy. The dude is talking about recovering data from a dead drive, now that is more challenging. (What I’m trying to do)

Use undelete, Data Recovery, etc. do a google search on free data recovery software and download it from cnet.com.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:42:13 +0000

Hi, my problem is with an external hard drive.
In windows xp I see the partitons and the files but I can’t access to them .

In ubuntu when I insert the disk, don’t mount any partition. Is a western digital passport
Could you help me?
Thanks

By: Luca

Luca — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:49:13 +0000

This method doesn’t help me recovering my data deleted by a human error.

By: Pelo

Pelo — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:29:32 +0000

@Tess
Use extundelete (http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/). My entire disk was deleted upon fail of the OS hard dirve, and I was able to recover more than 90% of my lost data. I cannot say enough of how good is this software.

By: Ujjwal

Ujjwal — Fri, 13 May 2011 05:17:43 +0000

This software not help me to recuvery my formatted drive.

By: Tess

Tess — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:03:59 +0000

Hello there, while I was working on my computer, it started making a clickytac sound then all of a sudden my window disappear. I try rebooting my computer and it ask me to restart normally or fixed the error I try both and did not work. I bought a new hard drive and now it’s working. My question is how can i restore my pictures that i have on my old hard drive. Can anyone help me please?….. ;-(

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:31:43 +0000

Looking for advice. I have a 1T seagate that was installed in an ANAS350 SAN drive. After about a year, the thing went south. Now when I fire it up, I can read from it for a few seconds, and then It seems to die. If I leave it for a few tens of minutes, it starts to click. If I shutdown, the exact same thing happens, suggesting it’s not a thermal problem.

So I fire up ddrescue and it can read a few hundred sectors and then a continuous string of end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector XXXXXXXX.

What is happening? I thought I had a logical problem, but it might be more. Am I correct in assuming that i’m doing no writes with ddrescue?

Thanks!

By: DrVitoti

DrVitoti — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:43:36 +0000

Hi, I am using a LiveCD, since the partition that doesn’t work is the one that has Ubuntu. When I try to install it says that it can’t find the “pack” (dunno the word in english, in spanish it’s paquete ), is there any way I can get it on a LiveCD, or do you know any other tool to do this when using a Live CD?? thanks very much

By: John

John — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:20:48 +0000

so I have a damaged drive in an external enclosure and I have a Knoppix LiveCD. Both my damaged drive and my good drive have windows vista installed. So my question is if I copy the covered data to my good drive will it mess up windows?

By: Dima

Dima — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:54:21 +0000

Can anyone give me the full command for reverse recovery?
I am using ubuntu.
Thank you!

By: Odin / Velmont

Odin / Velmont — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:16:53 +0000

PK: I had the same problem. But with SystemRescueCD and booting with “skipmount=/dev/sda2″ as option in the startup I was able to have it NOT touch the drive.

From thereon testdisk were able to fetch quite a lot of files from the disk. Mounting hung/froze everything so I couldn’t use any tools on the disk, and all systems tried mounting before. Good to get rid of it.

Article writer: BTW, I find it very strange that you save the image to /dev/sda2/backup.img --- i mean, you can’t save a file on a block device. I guess you mean /mnt/sda2/backup.img all those places…

By: Al

Al — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:23:56 +0000

Hello,
i dropped my laptop (hp dv7 ‘windows 7′) maybe a few inches onto a piece of wood. after that my laptop started to be really really slow. So i restarted it and then it would freeze on the starting windows page.
So i decided to start it in safe mode, and then the screen was filled with scripts.
Now when i start it all that it says is: “A disc read occurred / Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart”
I ran a hard disc test and it ended saying “Hard Disc Test Fail”
What should I do? i’m pretty sure my files are screwed but how can i recover them? How much would it cost?
please help,
Al

By: David Booth

David Booth — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:25:18 +0000

I’m on Ubuntu 10.04, and the package is called “gddrescue” in Synaptic Package Manager. However, once it is installed, the command seems to be (confusingly) “ddrescue”.

By: Orion

Orion — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:50:24 +0000

Hello,

While trying to install gddrescue on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on a machine that does not have internet connection on it, i copied the ddrescue-1.13.tar file from another machine on to the Home folder. but running the sudo aptitude install ddrescue command gives me a “could not find any package whose name or description matched “ddrescue”‘. can anyone help me?

Thank a bunch

By: MANISH

MANISH — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:06:48 +0000

Dear Sir

I have one hard disk of Hitachi company which is used in a laptop of sony company.
But my hard disk is dead and controller not working.
Is there is any solution to recover the data from there

Manish
K.P.S.
Warora chandrapur
9158479448

By: PK

PK — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:33:27 +0000

Every arsing one of these utilities I’ve tried (whether it be in DOS, Linux, LiveCD, Windows, PE whatever) have to feck around and try to read shyte they don’t need off the HD and cause it to hang until I reboot. Pretty much useless.

By: Lane Lester

Lane Lester — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:21:55 +0000

Comments are rotten place to try to conduct a conversation, but I might as well dump my experience here. I was trying to get an old PC going, and the failed install of Win XP (I know, I know) evidently trashed the file table. The drive looks like all the space is unallocated.

As noted, the instructions above don’t work, but I was able to use the command to make a backup.img in a directory. I tried to mount it with mount -t ext3 -o loop /mnt/pics/backup.img /mnt/rescue, but got this error: EXT3-fs (loop0): error: can’t find ext3 filesystem on dev loop0.