I've rescued data off NTFS disks before with the "scrounge" program. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 March 2012 19:35, Peter Salzman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p@dirac.org">p@dirac.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
A 2GB Hitachi drive holding one NTFS partition got hosed. The drive<br>
is literally one year old, and my belief is that this is a hardware<br>
failure, not a filesystem hosing.<br>
<br>
I see the drive in BIOS, so perhaps not all is lost. Windows fails to<br>
even acknowledge the drive's existence, so I'm trying to rescue it on<br>
Linux. I've never rescued an NTFS partition before.<br>
<br>
Doing some reading I found ntfsclone, so I figured the best thing to<br>
do would be to make a copy of the drive. I used:<br>
<br>
ntfsclone --force --rescue -o /ftp/storage.img /dev/sdc1<br>
<br>
but it's basically stuck at 57.71%:<br>
<br>
ntfsclone v2011.4.12AR.4 (libntfs-3g)<br>
NTFS volume version: 3.1<br>
Cluster size : 4096 bytes<br>
Current volume size: 2000396288000 bytes (2000397 MB)<br>
Current device size: 2000396289024 bytes (2000397 MB)<br>
Scanning volume ...<br>
56.71 percent completed<br>
<br>
which generates entries in /var/log/messages along the lines of:<br>
<br>
<br>
Mar 19 21:49:17 satan kernel: [3492239.910141] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]<br>
Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]<br>
Mar 19 21:49:17 satan kernel: [3492239.910146] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]<br>
Add. Sense: No additional sense information<br>
Mar 19 21:49:17 satan kernel: [3492239.910151] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB:<br>
Read(10): 28 00 00 62 57 a7 00 00 08 00<br>
Mar 19 21:50:39 satan kernel: [3492321.522843] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]<br>
Unhandled sense code<br>
<br>
It's not even clear whether ntfsclone is actually *reading* the drive.<br>
Scanning could just be checking FS integrity. Anyhow, I was curious<br>
about something.<br>
<br>
What exactly is the difference between dd (or ddrescue) which is how I<br>
normally rescued partitions in the past and ntfsclone? Which tool<br>
would be more appropriate for rescuing as many files as possible?<br>
<br>
Any words of wisdom from people who been here / done this?<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Pete<br>
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