Re: [Bug-ddrescue] 250gig error... out of nowhere.

[Paul L Daniels]

> is there any other DDrescue commands I can try to get the rest of the
> data off?
> (I refuse to believe 233gig was dead like that)

        Sadly this does happen, and more frequently than you would
        expect.  Imagine if your drive has a failed head on one of the
        platters, the entire platter is now inaccessible and thus
        you've lost the ability to read all that data.

        *sometimes* if you're lucky after it's done the normal first
        pass and it comes back to trimming the failed blocks you'll get
        some of the large block back.

        The only one thing I can think of for you to try is to
        deliberately make ddrescue start at a position within the large
        'dead block' using the -i option.

Paul.


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