My activities #Today:
0. scowl at work code, tap a few keys, start test.
1. roll chair 0.5m to the personal laptop, glare at #ddrescue output, curse computers.
2. shit post
3. roll chair back, verify new test failure
4. goto 0

Got the new 8Tb drive.
So back to trying to recover the last of the foobar external drive.
And of course THAT bastard is back on it's bullshit - #ddrescue reporting BYTES per second instead of desired KILObytes per second.

Still holding onto vague hope I'll see another sustained burst of speed that will carry this to 100%.
Currently at 62.36% recovered from the partition (first pass, some read errs, 1 actual bad sector)

#DataHoarder #DataRecovery

Извлекаем файлы из образа повреждённого диска: ddrescue, losetup и немного магии

Проблема повреждённых жёстких дисков знакома многим. Диск начинает работать со сбоями, система зависает, файлы исчезают. В этой статье мы разберём, как спасти данные: создадим образ повреждённого диска с ddrescue, подключим его через losetup, смонтируем разделы и извлечём файлы. Также рассмотрим восстановление удалённых данных с помощью утилит TestDisk и PhotoRec и разберём, что делать в случае проблем с NTFS.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/flant/articles/890728/

#ntfs #образ_диска #image #файлобраз #ddrescue #losetup #testdisk #поврежденный_диск #photorec #linux

It is drive recovery day! The SMART monitoring for one of the data disks on my media server started throwing errors, so it is time to pass the data forward to a new generation and upscale the storage.

#linux #ddrescue #hdd #ubuntu #diy

Been trying to #ddrescue my failing external HDD for the past 36 days. Slow but steady but for the past two days it's been completely stuck on 89% without moving at all. Gnnnnnn!

If worst comes to worst, anyone knows if Ctrl-C on the running ddrescue still results in a readable .raw file?

#linux

@jhx Apple has some bespoke booting stuff so #Hackintosh users have to constantly use tools like #Clover to modify a .dmg file from a #macOS installer to make it even boot and inject the necessary Kexts into the system so it doesn't fall flat on it's face.

Granted I do use those bootable drives as a more flexible option and I have all sorts of OSes on them for quick deployment.

• Personally I develop @OS1337 so I can have a slim live-booting non-persistent #Linux to be able to do the same without having to physically plug stuff into a system, but also to get base installs and data recovery made faster and simpler.

Otherwise the only thing even better than Ventoy on it's own is preparing a custom bootable image with a linux desktop on for a truly "normadic" desktop.

• @tails_live / @tails / #Tails comes close to it but doesn't really like installing a persistent storage on a drive with ventoy (even if one has a spare partition for it!) and for people who just want to have some tools like #ddrescue at hand, a regular linux desktop is more useful!

I mean, @kalilinux can be used for #DataRecovery but it's not intended to be used as a versatile daily driver (just like one opens a door with a key and not some breaching charges and a crowbar)...

#ddrescue going from "hey this is going swimmingly, 10min left" to "what the hell, 20h left" makes me regret using my work laptop to start this thing.

Still an MvP tool. Would recommend.

I'll drop a post and some snaps later today outlining my #beltandbraces methods for recovering data on old #AtariST #floppydisks using a #USB #floppydrive, #GNU #ddrescue, #Hatari and the #SidecarTridge hard disk emulation.

@foone I already do that as a #Sysadmin who knows how to use #photorec & #ddrescue...

• Seriously, shit like this never happens under my watch.

• Also #SolderedDownStorage like #SSD's automatically disqualifies a system for procurement and use in my book unless it has a reasonable exception and won't contain sensitive data (i.e. smartphone).

People who dislike that rule should whine at #Apple & co. for their #Enshittification with #SolderedSSDs!

DogLinux — построен на пакетной базе Debian 12 и предназначен для тестирования и обслуживания ПК и ноутбуков.

В состав входят такие приложения, как GPUTest, Unigine Heaven, CPU-X, GSmartControl, GParted, Partimage, Partclone, TestDisk, ddrescue, WHDD, DMDE.

Дистрибутив позволяет проверить работоспособность оборудования, нагрузить процессор и видеокарту, проверить SMART HDD и NVMe SSD.

src: https://github.com/DebianDog/doglinux
site: https://gumanzoy.blogspot.com/2024/10/20241004-doglinux.html

#opensource #foss #github #linux #gnu_linux #parted #gparted #hdd #ssd #nvmessd #nvme #testdisk #whdd #dmde #debian #debian12 #cpu #gputest #CPUX #unigineheaven #gsmartcontrol #partimage #partclone #testdisk #ddrescue

@SweetAIBelle @OS1337
So instead of relying on some non-#reproduceable system images for cheap SBCs, why not make something like #OS1337 that is compact enough that one can easily build everything one wants for it to get at least started with something.

• After all, rarely does a project call for a fancy, hardware-accelerated GUI desktop with a Cube-Style animated Virtual Desktop switcher.

Sometimes one just needs to bood a system, check it's hardware and #ddrescue something off the internal harddrive because one doesn't have any other system that can run it...

• Or have something to #netboot into as a #RescueSystem because #DisklessWorkstations and #DisklessServers are a thing espechally in big hosting envoirments where everything is done in seperately scalable layers and abstracted to APIs and Oroticols like #iSCSI...https://github.com/OS-1337/netboot

@witix yeah, repace that thing ASAP!
I hope you backed up stuff from it...

If not now's the time to use #ddrescue to do so.

It seems that #ddrescue without further options is faster than #dd without specifying block sizes.

There is no significant performance difference between using `/dev/zeros` and `/dev/urandom` as input, at least with SATA drives.

How to Use #ddrescue Command to Recover Data in #Linux 🐧

https://www.tecmint.com/ddrescue-recover-data-linux/

OK so I have an old external HDD and I'm not sure what it's condition is. Could be best described as "ailing a bit". Real slow at times. My best bet currently is to just dump the drive as long as it's readable at all.

Booted up Raspberry PI, plugged in another external HDD, then plugged in the old HDD...

[Blinkity blinkity beep boop all USB devices go resetty resetty resetty]

Uh, that's not good.

That's not good at all.

My guess is that these newfangled USB3 HDDs just suck up power like no tomorrow. Should try a system with a power supply that has a capacity measured in watts or something.

...of course, my "real" computer runs Windows and to do this thing, I need GNU #ddrescue, which of course is apparently pain to get going on Windows.

#datarecovery #archival

TL;DR; #ddrescue ftw!!!!!! 😎💪👍

Mir ist vor drei Tagen ohne Vorwarnung die #NVME-#SSD mit Betriebssystem, Buchhaltung #KVM, #Matrix- #Gitea- #Paperless-#Docker gestorben.
Ich als #Backupfanatiker hatte natürlich keines 😭(Script wäre fertig aber ungetestet)
#dd hat voll versagt, hat eh kaum was sinnvoll geklont und #fsck hat von dem wenigen auch noch ne Menge gekillt.
#ddrescue dagegen… was soll ich sagen: (fast) alles wieder da. Und auch noch super schnell.
….

#datarecovery experts, please can you help?

The #SD card in my #Android phone, decided to become unusable as extended storage recently. I removed it and cloned it using #ddrescue in Linux, and I've now got a 32G hex file ready to analyse.

I can't mount the SD card nor its cloned hex file, but I can see in the hex file what look like regular file structures.

Without being able to mount either the drive nor the clone file, how can I #parse the #hex file for recognisable files and #rescue them?

Cassons un cliché de cinéma, une récupération de données sur un disque dur pas trop malade ça ressemble à ça .

500GO : 8h de travail et ça a l'air de bien ce passer.

#ddrescue #linux #cyber #datarecovery

Does anybody know how to copy or recover old and probably damaged 💥 #SegaDreamcast games using #Linux?

I've already spent hours trying #cdrdao, #ddrescue and #safecopy. The #CDRom 💿 seems to have a binary audio and mode2/2352 data track.

#DataRecovery #FollowerPower

Unfortunately, some of my dvd classics don't seem to rip that well. I'm currently using ddrescue on an old laptop (only one that has a dvd drive) to copy them to an iso-file, which I turn into an MKV with Handbrake on my much better laptop. I did read that ddrescue has some other ways to try to fix the ripping process though, so I'll try those. Tips appreciated!

#ddrescue #linux #dvd #handbrake