[Bug-ddrescue] Re: Looking to use Linux for data recovery on a dead XP hard drive

[James W. Watts]

Reading the image from the rescue drive that I DBAN'ed produced the same 
results as before. Still
only showed a partial recovery. And the files it did show were unreadable.

I guess the filesystem is damaged, as Antonio suggested. Is there any way to 
repair it?

James


James W. Watts wrote:
> # Rescue Logfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.3
> #      pos        size    status
> 0x00000000  0x1321301C00    +

The logfile says that ddrescue recovered 82161179648 bytes (82GB) 
without errors. If you can't mount the image produced by ddrescue it 
should be because the filesystem in the (aparently not) damaged drive is 
corrupt.

If the rescue drive is larger than the damaged drive the comparison is 
going to fail, and the rescue drive will contain at the end whatever 
data left there by earlier uses of the drive. Wiping the rescue drive 
with DBAN will make a difference on the files recovered with Get Data 
Back, but won't remedy other errors the filesystem may have.


Regards,
Antonio.