Re: [Bug-ddrescue] help needed recovering a hard drive with bad blocks

[gr]

Ariel,

Thank you for your suggestions.

One thing I noticed when booting up Knoppix is that
the bad hard drive takes a long time to be "detected"
during the bootup.  When the kernel is scanning for
partitions and creating /etc/fstab it just hangs there
for about 5 minutes and I can hear the drive siliently
clicking (clicks about every second).  I'm worried
that the drive may be *really* slow .... but
eventually it does boot up and I can see that Knoppix
has detected the partition.  I have a feeling that the
Volume Boot Record has been affected by the bad
sectors though...


> I'm assuming the old drive is just one large
> partition.

Yes, it was just one large NTFS partition ... about
114  GB large ... about 112 GB of it personal data.


> If you have enough space on the new drive for 2
> partitions exactly the 
> same size as the one on the bad drive do it, the
> extra one will be useful.

Well I did buy a 320 GB hard drive, so I could make
two identical 114 GB partitions ... but I don't need
to format these partitions as NTFS, right? ... I can
just use ddrescue to image to the unformatted space
directly, right?


> Also, I don't know how well or poorly it will work
> if run over USB - I 
> don't know how USB reacts to errors. Presumably USB
> is slower then hooking 
> it up direct.

Yeah ... I'm not going to use USB. I took the drive
out of its enclosure and hooked up directly to the
motherboard.


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