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On 2018.12.18 12:42, Mick wrote: |
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[snip...] |
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> So, I used losetup with --offset on the failing drive itself over USB |
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> 2.0 and was able to mount and recover all the NTFS files. |
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I definitely need to read up on that one - I totally unfamiliar with it. |
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> |
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> Over the years I've used clonezilla, ddrescue, testdisk, photorec and |
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> losetup to recover files. On a couple of times where data on the |
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> disk had been overwritten by subsequent operations, I was not able to |
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> recover the affected files. So, if when moving the partition data |
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> was overwritten I suspect it will be very difficult to recover this |
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> with conventional software tools. However, it doesn't hurt to try. |
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> :-) |
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I should be in good shape there. The partition's new location should |
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have the first half intact, and since the overwriting was of the first |
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part of the old location, it's second half should be intact. The files |
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should all be there - but I imagine I might have to play with any |
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directories which were successfully move, but not the stuff they point |
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to. Of course, all of this depends on recovering from the read errors |
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- so ddrescue needs to finish first. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Jack |
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