Re: [Bug-ddrescue] DDrescue Basics Question, Please help!

Get rid of the quotes. Also, you need to image the device, not the mountpoint.

For example, your drive may be /dev/sdc with one partition on it. So your filesystem will be on /dev/sdc1. When you plug it in, /dev/sdc1 will be detected and mounted at /media/FLASH. You don't want to image /media/FLASH, but /dev/sdc1.

Try running

sudo lshw -C disk -short

to get a list of attached disks. You can also look in /proc/partitions;

cat /proc/partitions

If your drive is failing, it's partitions may not be detected. All that would apear is /dec/sdc... You you may have to image the entire thing (/dev/sdc).

So, the command would be
sudo ddrescue /dev/sdc image log

P.S. Use a log file. It will allow you to resume if you interrupt the process....
Good luck!
Andrew Zajac

From: bagellad <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2009 10:16:37 PM
Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] DDrescue Basics Question, Please help!

Hello, Thanks for your time.

I am trying to recover files, pictures and videos from an external hard
drive. Currently I have removed the drive from the enclosure and have it
connected with a usb hard drive connector. I have been trying to get
ddrescue to work but unfortunately I am not able to have it find the drive.
It is shown on the computer screen but not mounted. So Ive been trying to
get ddrescue to work with a flash drive just to make sure I have the
commands right...

address@hidden:~$ sudo ddrescue -r 3 "/media/FLASH DISK"
Desktop/Backup.img Desktop/logfile.log
[sudo] password for bagellad:

Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Initial status (read from logfile)
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 16384 B, errors: 32
Current status
rescued: 0 B, errsize: 16384 B, current rate: 0 B/s
ipos: 15872 B, errors: 32, average rate: 0 B/s
opos: 15872 B

but the recovery file is empty. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
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From:	andrew zajac
Subject:	Re: [Bug-ddrescue] DDrescue Basics Question, Please help!
Date:	Tue, 8 Sep 2009 06:39:34 -0700 (PDT)