[kwlug-disc] Hard disk smartctl errors

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 08:51:49PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>> Looking at gddrescue examples, they all assume another disk with a
>> spare partition to recover to.
>
> You don't need a spare partition. You do need another disk
> with sufficient space. You can just write a giant image file
> to this second disk.

This is what I am trying to do:

ddrescue -d -n -r3 -vv /dev/sdc2 /data/ddrescue-20141015.img
/data/ddrescue-20141015.log

Create an image, then mount it with loopback, or directly with ntfs-3g
and see what I can get ...
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