Hello all. I'm on the mailing list for this fantastic recovery software and I've learned lots reading through all the different posts. Hope you can help me.
I have a damaged drive that is nearly full with music files (mp3s). It belongs to a DJ and I need to get his files back quickly. The damaged drive is a 500GB internal SATA drive and the recovery drive is a 650GB external USB drive. Both drives are connected to the computer via USB adapters. As for the physical setup, is this good for speed? The computer I'm using is a relatively modern laptop with USB 2.0 ports.
What settings or parameters would you use when issuing the ddrescue command for this task? Assume the drive has lots of sector errors and that most of the files are 4-10 MB in size.
I need to pull an
image quickly so I can start Photorec on it and get back the MP3s. I ran ddrescue for two days with the following command, but only have 4GB so far. As a test, I ran Photorec against the partial recovery image and got back lots of working MP3s. So the data is definitely intact, it's just going very slowly.
My command
sudo ddrescue -v -d -n /dev/Damaged_Drive /Media/Recovery_Drive/image.img /Media/Recovery_Drive/image.log
Also, this morning I checked on the recovery process to discover the following message:
ddrescue: write error: File too large
Any ideas? Please tell me how I can make a quick image? At this rate it could take longer than a month.
Thank you,
James
Charlotte, NC