[vox-tech] Rescuing NTFS partition

[bob stanley]

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Darth Borehd <darth.borehd at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've rescued data off NTFS disks before with the "scrounge" program.
>
> On 19 March 2012 19:35, Peter Salzman <p at dirac.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A 2GB Hitachi drive holding one NTFS partition got hosed.   The drive
>> is literally one year old, and my belief is that this is a hardware
>> failure, not a filesystem hosing.
>>
>> I see the drive in BIOS, so perhaps not all is lost.  Windows fails to
>> even acknowledge the drive's existence, so I'm trying to rescue it on
>> Linux.  I've never rescued an NTFS partition before.
>>
>> Doing some reading I found ntfsclone, so I figured the best thing to
>> do would be to make a copy of the drive.   I used:
>>
>> ntfsclone --force --rescue -o /ftp/storage.img /dev/sdc1
>>
>> but it's basically stuck at 57.71%:
>>
>> ntfsclone v2011.4.12AR.4 (libntfs-3g)
>> NTFS volume version: 3.1
>> Cluster size       : 4096 bytes
>> Current volume size: 2000396288000 bytes (2000397 MB)
>> Current device size: 2000396289024 bytes (2000397 MB)
>> Scanning volume ...
>> 56.71 percent completed
>>
>> which generates entries in /var/log/messages along the lines of:
>>
>>
>> Mar 19 21:49:17 satan kernel: [3492239.910141] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
>> Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
>> Mar 19 21:49:17 satan kernel: [3492239.910146] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
>> Add. Sense: No additional sense information
>> Mar 19 21:49:17 satan kernel: [3492239.910151] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB:
>> Read(10): 28 00 00 62 57 a7 00 00 08 00
>> Mar 19 21:50:39 satan kernel: [3492321.522843] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
>> Unhandled sense code
>>
>> It's not even clear whether ntfsclone is actually *reading* the drive.
>>  Scanning could just be checking FS integrity.  Anyhow, I was curious
>> about something.
>>
>> What exactly is the difference between dd (or ddrescue) which is how I
>> normally rescued partitions in the past and ntfsclone?   Which tool
>> would be more appropriate for rescuing as many files as possible?
>>
>> Any words of wisdom from people who been here / done this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Pete
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