[Bug-ddrescue] Question about recovering a NTFS partition with ddrescue

[Tom Williams]

A friend of mine has a NTFS partition on a drive that is failing.  He
wants to recover the data and I'm hoping I can with ddrescue.  The thing
is, the drive with the NTFS partition on it is reported as being a "raw"
drive by chkdsk, meaning chkdsk doesn't recognize the NTFS partition.

Can ddrescue be of any help here?  I was thinking of using ddrescue to
copy the data to another hard drive and then use a partition utility,
like GPartEd or something else, to fix the partition table.

Does this have a chance at actually working?  :)

Thanks in advance!

Peace...

Tom