[Bug-ddrescue] HDD Image Too Large

[Esben Stien]

I'm trying to rescue a HDD and I first issued this command:

# ddrescue -vv --no-split /dev/sde /mnt/flash/sde.img
/mnt/flash/sde.log

GNU ddrescue 1.16
About to copy 2199 GBytes from /dev/sde to /mnt/flash/sde.img
    Starting positions: infile = 0 B,  outfile = 0 B
    Copy block size: 128 sectors       Initial skip size: 128 sectors
Sector size: 512 Bytes
Max retries: 0
Direct: no    Sparse: no    Split: no    Truncate: no

Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
rescued:   185150 MB,  errsize:       0 B,  current rate:     524 kB/s
   ipos:   185150 MB,   errors:       0,    average rate:     585 kB/s
   opos:   185150 MB,     time since last successful read:       0 s

Actually, the capacity of the drive is 160Go, so something is wrong. As
you see, I canceled the ddrescue command at 185Go. 

I used a USB SATA adapter and the time it took to copy this was like 3
days.

Anyways, the image doesn't seem to contain any valid data. 

I tried this command: 

# gpart -g -vv sde.img 

dev(sde.img) mss(512)

* Warning: strange partition table magic 0x0000.
Primary partition(1)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
   hex:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Primary partition(2)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
   hex:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Primary partition(3)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
   hex:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Primary partition(4)
   type: 000(0x00)(unused)
   size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
   chs:  (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
   hex:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00


Begin scan...

It just hangs there until end of days and nothing happens..

Any pointers as to how I can proceed or what I can try?

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