Questions tagged [ddrescue]

I have a problem with mounting the cloned partition. To clone it, I used as root: ddrescue -f -n /dev/sda3 ./sda3_rescue.img ./rescue.log The partition which I cloned, was a broken NTFS partition. Broken, because during the resizing of this NTFS…

How can I attempt to read bad sectors from the end of the disk, using ddrescue? I have dynamic volumes and the LDR is kept at the end of the disk, unlike MBR. I remember that I've tried --reverse but it changed the direction from the last tried…

How to make ddrescue rescue unreadable files along with rsync run when you backup files, when they do exist only at the source? I think that major programs that work on backup disks must "merge" with ddrescue for platter disks. I have a lot of disks…

I have a USB hard drive that appears to have failed. Now I'm trying to transfer as much data as possible to a fresh drive with ddrescue -n -f -v /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc2 recovery.log. I ran into the error message Input file disappeared: no such file or…