Thanks for the reply.
On Tuesday, 12 June 2012, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
Trimming is slow (it reads backwards one sector at a time). In your case it seems there are a lot of blocks to trim.
I would try the following:
1) stop the rescue and move the logfile to a safe and non-volatile place.
2) run ddrescue with the --direct option. This should avoid caching and increase speed of trimming.
3) if 2 fails, try the option --try-again.
Thanks, I'll try that.
My question is: if I interrupt the process at this point, can I mount &
CHKDSK the destination drive and expect to see usable data? Or will the
partition structure not yet be complete?
This will modify the destination filesystem, and then you won't be able to resume the copy meaningfully.
OK. But if I decide that I've already retrieved 'enough' data (for a friend, btw), then I can interrupt the copy at this point and have target disk that has all the existing data on it? It doesn't need to run to completion to be useable?
Jessica