[Wolves] Help - crashed hard disk!!! re ddrescue

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:48 +0000, Mark Ellse wrote:
> Have rung Voda and am waiting for them to call me back. But am trying to 
> play with ddrescue.
> 
> Have located it in the package manager for Ubuntu and marked it and 
> gddrescue for installation. Clicked OK. It seemed to locate the packages 
> and install them. (I think I know that because now in the package 
> manager they are marked in such a way that I can uninstall them!)
> 
> But now I can't find them on the Ubuntu machine. Any ideas?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Morley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:00 +0000, Ron Wellsted wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:39:35AM +0000, Mark Ellse wrote:
> >>     
> >>> OS is Windows 2000. FS is NTFS. Have put computer into another machine 
> >>> with Windows 2000 and it recognises that there is a disk there, but 
> >>> can't access the disk.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> This makes it sound like either the partition table is damaged or the
> >> filesystem itself is VERY badly corrupt (which implies that any data
> >> recovered must be regarded as suspect).
> >>
> >> You could try ubuntu (reads/writes NTFS no problem), otherwise you
> >> need to look at a specialist service (Vogon?).  The important thing at
> >> this stage is not to make matters worse, If you have any doubts, DON'T
> >> TRY IT!
> >>
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> > If all else fails try gnu ddrescue or try one of many tools available
> > system rescue cd also the gparted live cd comes with a tool similar to
> > ghost so you could make an image drop it onto a working harddrive then
> > use a file extraction tool on that.
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Gddrescue is cli not gui.  type in man gddrescue
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