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I found that Seagate makes software for disks that contains Acronis True
Image. That software is highly praised and costs a fair amount, but if the drive is a Seagate, or Maxtor (owned by Seagate), the software is free. I downloaded it, ran it, and could not use my computer for 23+ hours while it ran. It made an image of the whole defective partition to another parttition. When it was done, it said there were errors and they were listed in a .log file. The list of errors was very large, but the majority of them were on folders which I have backed up. Yet, there were still at least 80 or 100 missing from the files I need to recover. However I was still far ahead from trying to copy files manually. I nearly thought I was succeeding, and was nearly ready to toss that bad drive in the trash and just try to locate and re-download the files that were not copied (saved as ZERO BYTES). Then I discovered that none of the .PDF files that were recovered could be used. All of them are defectiive (except the ones I also saved by direct manual copy). Just for the heck of it, I chose one defective PDF, which was recovered at 256kb. I searched for it online, and re-downloaded it. That file is supposed to be 742kb. So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. And just to satisfy those of you who think linux can do this better, I could not locate ddrescue or gddrescue online, but I did download a ISO called systemrescuecd. I used unetbootn to make a bootable flash drive, and said a lot of filthy words after trying several flash drives, none of which would boot. And yes, my bios is set to boot from a flash drive, since my Puppy linux stick does boot. This came as no surprise to me. Thats the same bad luck I have always had with any and all forms of linux, and I guess I needed to waste a few more hours of my time to confirm why I hate linux. |
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I found that Seagate makes software for disks that contains Acronis True Image. That software is highly praised and costs a fair amount, but if the drive is a Seagate, or Maxtor (owned by Seagate), the software is free. I downloaded it, ran it, and could not use my computer for 23+ hours while it ran. It made an image of the whole defective partition to another parttition. When it was done, it said there were errors and they were listed in a .log file. The list of errors was very large, but the majority of them were on folders which I have backed up. Yet, there were still at least 80 or 100 missing from the files I need to recover. However I was still far ahead from trying to copy files manually. I nearly thought I was succeeding, and was nearly ready to toss that bad drive in the trash and just try to locate and re-download the files that were not copied (saved as ZERO BYTES). Then I discovered that none of the .PDF files that were recovered could be used. All of them are defectiive (except the ones I also saved by direct manual copy). Just for the heck of it, I chose one defective PDF, which was recovered at 256kb. I searched for it online, and re-downloaded it. That file is supposed to be 742kb. So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. And just to satisfy those of you who think linux can do this better, I could not locate ddrescue or gddrescue online, but I did download a ISO called systemrescuecd. I used unetbootn to make a bootable flash drive, and said a lot of filthy words after trying several flash drives, none of which would boot. And yes, my bios is set to boot from a flash drive, since my Puppy linux stick does boot. This came as no surprise to me. Thats the same bad luck I have always had with any and all forms of linux, and I guess I needed to waste a few more hours of my time to confirm why I hate linux. At least you've kept your positive attitude and your sense of humor. I still have no idea what kind of computer this is, or even what era. I suspect it has IDE drives. As a guess. I can check your distro here, for basic info. It's a small image, Gentoo based. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?dis...n=systemrescue I downloaded the current one. I checked, and I have *seven* other versions here. WTF. I don't remember using those, so somebody must have asked me to try them out. Now I have eight images. Here's the latest one. For some reason, Xwindows didn't start, so I had to issue a "startx" in the black terminal window, and the GUI came up. The logged in user is "root", so you won't need to add "sudo" to any commands needing elevation. You can just use "ddrescue" without a sudo in front. https://s1.postimg.org/69814ombvj/sysrescue_511.gif The "ddrescue" command appears to be on the thing, as it was there when I tried running it. ddrescue -h ******* So now we have to tackle, how did you get sysrescue onto the Flash key. I checked the disc type, and it's an old style ElTorito/Joliet overlay CD (like, forever). It's not a newer hybrid. That means you can't just "dd" it onto a USB stick. Unetbootin lists SysRescueCD, so it's supposed to be able to use it. http://unetbootin.github.io/ The .dat on the SysRescueCD appears to be a ZIP style archive of some sort. It's not a squashFS. I checked my earliest version of SysRescue and it has the same formulation. Whatever has happened, doesn't seem to be some recent change. And the SysRescueCD site itself has a bunch of recipes for installing. http://www.system-rescue-cd.org/Inst...n-a-USB-stick/ Using UnetBootin and using the ISO menu at the bottom section of the screen, puts this on my *FAT32* USB key. The ones with arrows below, those are contents that came from the ISO. In addition, the [BOOT] on the ISO, was replaced by the "isolinux" folder (as far as I know). Volume in drive R is TRANSFER Volume Serial Number is 0862-E66E Directory of R:\ 08/27/2013 2,422,752 ubnkern 02/01/2014 1,331,714 ubninit 10/10/2017 DIR boot --- 10/10/2017 DIR bootdisk --- 10/10/2017 DIR efi --- 10/10/2017 DIR isolinux --- 10/10/2017 DIR ntpasswd --- 10/10/2017 DIR usb_inst --- 10/10/2017 109 ubnpathl.txt 03/19/2017 2,363 readme.txt --- 09/29/2017 441,069,568 sysrcd.dat --- 09/29/2017 45 sysrcd.md5 --- 03/19/2017 15,946 usb_inst.sh --- 03/19/2017 912 usbstick.htm --- 09/29/2017 6 version --- 10/10/2017 10,723 ubnfilel.txt 10/10/2017 5,817 syslinux.cfg 10/10/2017 60,928 menu.c32 The USB key I made... doesn't boot. It is not able to mount any partition. You can tell it's struggling, and the text on the screen is coming from the UnetBootin bootstrapper and not SysRescueCD. OK, time to try another USB key tool. The portable version for Windows. https://rufus.akeo.ie/ https://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.17p.exe (966,776 bytes) Scan is clean. https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/26...5ff6/detection That's doing the same type of things as UnetBootin. It's adding IsoLinux to aid boot off the USB. I used the menu near the bottom, to select the ISO option, and the blob to the right of it, to get to a file manager window to select the ISO I wanted to use. The transfer to the USB stick was faster, but because I was in a VM, it wasn't super-fast. Now, over to the Test Machine to test it... OK, using the BIOS boot menu, I select legacy rather than UEFI boot, since I know it's not a hybrid source and doesn't have the UEFI files. When the SysRescue menu comes up, I cursor down to line "(6)" for graphical start. Then hit return. Once it coughs up text, it will stop for keyboard type, I hit return again as US keyboard declaration is good enough. And the desktop comes up, as it should. It looks the same as my "sysrescue_511.gif" image on postimage above. The difference is, by selecting option 6, I don't need any startx to be entered into a black screen and it does that on its own. So give Rufus a try. Initially I thought the results would be the same, as it's an isolinux installer too, but it seems to be more up-to-date than unetbootin. (And I did use the latest unetbootin too, because I don't normally stock these items. This is the first time I've tried Rufus for example. And this wouldn't be the first time that utnetbootin has let me down.) HTH, Paul |
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On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:19:30 -0500, wrote:
So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. In case you're not aware of it, such a service is *very* expensive. Be prepared to pay well over $1000 |
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In message , Ken Blake
writes: On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:19:30 -0500, wrote: So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. In case you're not aware of it, such a service is *very* expensive. Be prepared to pay well over $1000 Wasn't there a piece of software - it either ran under DOS or included the OS, I think it was bootable in itself - that would repeatedly read until it got something (possibly taking days to do a disc)? I think it cost about 50 pounds. (I vaguely remember the name Spinrite, but that might be something else entirely.) I don't know if it works at all with modern (even as old as is being considered here) discs that have remapping firmware. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. - Thomas Henry Huxley |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ken Blake writes: On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:19:30 -0500, wrote: So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. In case you're not aware of it, such a service is *very* expensive. Be prepared to pay well over $1000 Wasn't there a piece of software - it either ran under DOS or included the OS, I think it was bootable in itself - that would repeatedly read until it got something (possibly taking days to do a disc)? I think it cost about 50 pounds. (I vaguely remember the name Spinrite, but that might be something else entirely.) I don't know if it works at all with modern (even as old as is being considered here) discs that have remapping firmware. GRC Spinrite ? How to beat a disk to death, in one easy lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite The techniques described, I noticed these working in the lab about 30 years ago. They cannot possibly be valid today. Too much has changed. Back in the old days, on SCSI or SASI disks, we had factory and grown defect lists. And semi-automatic sparing. Now, sector sparing is automatic. And I'm not aware of any way to access a disk-level spares list (i.e. access the look-up table that maps LBA to "real" sector number). And scrubbing the disk 2000 times on one track, while in theory will not damage anything, it really depends on whether there was a debris field, and you're causing multiple head crashes by driving the heads over the area. Paul |
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In message , Paul
writes: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:19:30 -0500, wrote: [] this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. [] In case you're not aware of it, such a service is *very* expensive. Be prepared to pay well over $1000 Wasn't there a piece of software - it either ran under DOS or included the OS, I think it was bootable in itself - that would repeatedly read until it got something (possibly taking days to do a [] GRC Spinrite ? How to beat a disk to death, in one easy lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite The techniques described, I noticed these working in the lab about 30 years ago. They cannot possibly be valid today. Too much has changed. Back in the old days, on SCSI or SASI disks, we had factory and grown defect lists. And semi-automatic sparing. Now, Yes; those huge (physically, not capacity - that was usually just a few MB!) drives came with a printed label showing the defects! sector sparing is automatic. And I'm not aware of any way to access a disk-level spares list (i.e. access the look-up table that maps LBA to "real" sector number). And scrubbing I would guess that there _is_ a way, but it's probably specific to each manufacturer, and somewhat closely guarded secret in each case. (Maybe also requiring extra connections to test points on the controller board too.) the disk 2000 times on one track, while in theory will not damage anything, it really depends on whether there was a debris field, and you're causing multiple head crashes by driving the heads over the area. Paul Indeed. Though it _sounds_ like the OP's disc has one or two just dud sectors - possibly just a defective coating. (Which could indeed create debris, if it's flaked off, of course.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Wisdom is the ability to cope. - the late (AB of C) Michael Ramsey, quoted by Stephen Fry (RT 24-30 August 2013) |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:44:35 -0400, Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:19:30 -0500, wrote: So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. In case you're not aware of it, such a service is *very* expensive. Be prepared to pay well over $1000 Wasn't there a piece of software - it either ran under DOS or included the OS, I think it was bootable in itself - that would repeatedly read until it got something (possibly taking days to do a disc)? I think it cost about 50 pounds. (I vaguely remember the name Spinrite, but that might be something else entirely.) I don't know if it works at all with modern (even as old as is being considered here) discs that have remapping firmware. GRC Spinrite ? How to beat a disk to death, in one easy lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite snip Every couple of posts in this thread, it might be worth reminding the OP that ddrescue is really the best hope. If that can't be made to run successfully for any number of reasons, then IMHO the amount of hope for success is greatly reduced. I would disconnect the problematic drive, multiple partitions and all, until I get ddescue working, even if that means buying a $15 optical drive if the PC can't boot from USB. -- Char Jackson |
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Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:44:35 -0400, Paul wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:19:30 -0500, wrote: So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. In case you're not aware of it, such a service is *very* expensive. Be prepared to pay well over $1000 Wasn't there a piece of software - it either ran under DOS or included the OS, I think it was bootable in itself - that would repeatedly read until it got something (possibly taking days to do a disc)? I think it cost about 50 pounds. (I vaguely remember the name Spinrite, but that might be something else entirely.) I don't know if it works at all with modern (even as old as is being considered here) discs that have remapping firmware. GRC Spinrite ? How to beat a disk to death, in one easy lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite snip Every couple of posts in this thread, it might be worth reminding the OP that ddrescue is really the best hope. If that can't be made to run successfully for any number of reasons, then IMHO the amount of hope for success is greatly reduced. I would disconnect the problematic drive, multiple partitions and all, until I get ddescue working, even if that means buying a $15 optical drive if the PC can't boot from USB. I'm sure he'll get SysRescue running now. It's just a matter of whether he does a disk to disk clone, has enough spare disks and so on, so that a safe recovery can be attempted. ddrescue Bad ------- "Golden ---- Experimental Drive Clone" Clone (run CHKDSK here) [Stop [This one [This one is for using is experiments and is this] read-only] read/write] The idea being, if the Bad Drive dies, all your copies then come from the "Golden Clone". If you want to try a particular repair-in-place tool like CHKDSK, then you copy the Golden master to your second disk, and see what you can achieve over on the second spare disk. ddrescue is multi-pass. Your first pass gets most of it. And builds a log file. Read the log file with a text editor, to see how well you are doing. Subsequent runs consult the log file, to see what needs to be done. I personally prefer to "Zero" the Golden Clone, before this sequence is carried out. Using Windows "diskpart", the Clean All command achieves the desired result, just before you switch to Linux and do your ddrescue run(s). If the source disk is actually good over the entire surface, it only takes one pass with ddrescue, and the log file should be almost empty (except for a title or something in it - I don't remember what lines were left in there). Paul |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:12:39 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:44:35 -0400, Paul wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:19:30 -0500, wrote: So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. In case you're not aware of it, such a service is *very* expensive. Be prepared to pay well over $1000 Wasn't there a piece of software - it either ran under DOS or included the OS, I think it was bootable in itself - that would repeatedly read until it got something (possibly taking days to do a disc)? I think it cost about 50 pounds. (I vaguely remember the name Spinrite, but that might be something else entirely.) I don't know if it works at all with modern (even as old as is being considered here) discs that have remapping firmware. GRC Spinrite ? How to beat a disk to death, in one easy lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite snip Every couple of posts in this thread, it might be worth reminding the OP that ddrescue is really the best hope. If that can't be made to run successfully for any number of reasons, then IMHO the amount of hope for success is greatly reduced. I would disconnect the problematic drive, multiple partitions and all, until I get ddescue working, even if that means buying a $15 optical drive if the PC can't boot from USB. Why is it that in a Windows newsgroup, it seems the only solution to anything is to use Linux? I begin to wonder if this is some sort of conspiracy, inspired by linux users who hate Windows, to make Windows look bad. I only know one thing, if I had to use linux, I would have quit using computers about 25 years ago. Everytime I have ever touched any sort of linux, I have become physically ill from stresss and frustration. About 4 years ago, I really committed myself to learning linux. I spent about 6 weeks of hell with it, and finally arrived at the point I was either going to smash my computer with a sledge hammer, or simply format the hard drive I was using to remove any and all traces of linux from my life. I chose the later. Buying a $15 optical drive wont do anything except waste $15 and probably another $30 worth of blank CDs to fill my garbage can. Particularly when I cant even find a copy of ddrescue online that is in some sort of useful format. Meaning that every download of it is in some useless format called ".Tar". Why cant they use something normal like ..zip I refuse to go back to the frustration of even attempting linux. I hate it, and I'll repeat that. "I HATE LINUX". There is no reason that I should come to a Windows newsgroup and be told that linux is my only hope. If the only way to salvage this drive, is to use linux, I'll rather do what a guy did on a youtube video called "Shoot your computer, episode 1". (Worth watching). I'm retitred and on a small fixed income. My electronics hobby/business is my only outside source of income. Losing this data has put an end to that business. I guess I should have printed all this to paper, since it's apparent that computers are not reliable. Live and learn. Life is full of hard lessons, and I guess I learned the hard way. |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:12:39 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:44:35 -0400, Paul wrote: J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Ken Blake writes: On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 23:19:30 -0500, wrote: So, I've come to the conclusion it's hopeless trying to recover from this drive. However, I am going to still see if a professional data recovery service can do it. In case you're not aware of it, such a service is *very* expensive. Be prepared to pay well over $1000 Wasn't there a piece of software - it either ran under DOS or included the OS, I think it was bootable in itself - that would repeatedly read until it got something (possibly taking days to do a disc)? I think it cost about 50 pounds. (I vaguely remember the name Spinrite, but that might be something else entirely.) I don't know if it works at all with modern (even as old as is being considered here) discs that have remapping firmware. GRC Spinrite ? How to beat a disk to death, in one easy lesson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite snip Every couple of posts in this thread, it might be worth reminding the OP that ddrescue is really the best hope. If that can't be made to run successfully for any number of reasons, then IMHO the amount of hope for success is greatly reduced. I would disconnect the problematic drive, multiple partitions and all, until I get ddescue working, even if that means buying a $15 optical drive if the PC can't boot from USB. Why is it that in a Windows newsgroup, it seems the only solution to anything is to use Linux? I found mention of ddrescue, on the TestDisk site (where the program is available on Windows and Linux). "Leads" for software can take you just about anywhere. As an example, I was working on a problem that required me using Imagemagick. While I was reading the application section some guy wrote, he happened to include a paragraph about a competing (free) product! And how you could use that tool, to do the job better than the section of the manual he was writing. For that one, a Google search didn't get me there - it was a pure accident. It you want to use tools you discover that way, you have to be flexible about your environments. Can you restrict yourself to a subset of the computing world ? Of course you can. Windows has utilities that will tolerate a bad sector. But, will those same utilities do multiple passes, to try to build the most complete image possible ? The answer is no. And in some cases, the commercial software actually *lied* about the capability they have, and as soon as you hit a bad sector, the product stops dead. So if you want to test a half dozen of them, and get a bruise on your forehead, go right ahead. ******* Here's a compromise lead for you. https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announc.../msg00087.html "Christian Franke 23 Mar 2016 The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * ddrescue-1.21-1 " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin "Developer(s) Cygnus Solutions, Red Hat, others https://cygwin.com/install.html (There is a setup you can run...) That's an environment that installs in Windows. Using a list of programs, it first downloads a default set of stuff. And you can also select individual programs. You use a symbol in the GUI, that rotates and opens up more stuff (I missed that the first time I used it and couldn't figure out how to get the program I wanted). Now, on the one hand, I just said the word "environment", which smacks of "learning curve". But, if you grab ddrescue.exe plus two Cygwin DLL files used by all the Cygwin programs, you get a "portable tool". You can then "ignore" the Cygwin tree that just downloaded. So after obtaining ddrescue.exe and the two DLLs, you can put them in a separate folder, and you can delete or uninstall the entire Cygwin tree. I have a tool called disktype, which will identify file systems on optical discs or hard drives. I keep a folder with these three files in it, and this is a portable environment. disktype.exe 143 KB cyggcc_s-1.dll 102 KB cygwin1.dll 3200 KB I run disktype from the command prompt. cd C:/path/to/folder/with/disktype/and/the/ISO disktype some.iso and it tells me whether the ISO is El Torito, Hybrid, and so on. The ddrescue would be the same idea. An EXE. And you dig up the two Cygwin DLLs and your "kit" should be ready to run. In the above discussion thread, notice the person doing the port "has changed a few command line arguments". Don't forget to find the manual page so you have a reference. Using "ddrescue -h" will probably list the help, but having a manual page doesn't hurt. Does that port work ? I hope so. But I haven't tested it. I'd probably just fire up a Windows VM and do my Cygwin in there, then collect the giblets I need for some task and store them in the real Windows. Paul |
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Paul wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin That turned out to be harder than it needed to be. The idea was, you use the "setup.exe" to populate a C:\cygwin directory with stuff. It looks like a year ago, they decided to drop support for WinXP. If you want Cygwin on a WinXP machine now, the recipe is here. http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruit...wintimemachine The setup.exe files for the WinXP version are here. https://web.archive.org/web/20160728...://cygwin.com/ "Install it by running setup-x86.exe (32-bit installation) or setup-x86_64.exe (64-bit installation)." When you download that, you do this in a Command Prompt. setup-x86.exe -X and on any future invocation of the setup (like if you need to download another package of software later), you do this again in a Command Prompt window setup-x86.exe -X The Time Machine page gives a URL that goes into the mirror site dialog, pointing the installer at the (private) web server with repository on it. ******* If you wanted to install Cygwin for an OS later than WinXP, you follow the instructions on the Cygwin site. http://www.cygwin.com/ I got the WinXP ddrescue package installed. I made a couple fake disk drives in a virtual machine and tested it. This is my fake environment disk 1 WinXP SP3 x32 /dev/sda disk 2 blank 1GB disk drive /dev/sdb disk 3 blank 1GB disk drive /dev/sdc And in Disk Management, they're listed in that order too. This is the content of the logfile (aka mapfile) after a successful (single) run. Since my fake disks don't have CRC errors, it's not possible to test that the program works with damaged disks. This is my sdb.log file, after the run. If the source disk (sdb) had CRC errors, then additional lines in this file would say "it hasn't copied them yet". And a second or subsequent pass would be required. # Mapfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.21 # # Command line: ddrescue -b8M --force /dev/sdb /dev/sdc sdb.log # # Start time: 2017-10-11 00:31:52 # Current time: 2017-10-11 00:32:17 # Finished # current_pos current_status 0x3FE56C00 + # pos size status 0x00000000 0x3FFC0000 + The actual "device" size is 1,073,479,680 bytes. In hex that is 0x3FFC0000. So it looks like the last line in the log file, shows the job as completed. I don't know what the "current_pos" means. It's 2890 sectors from the end. Paul |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:16:20 -0400, Paul wrote:
I'm sure he'll get SysRescue running now. I'm sure I wont. I tried Yumi, Rufus, and a newer version of Unetbootin. I tried a 2gb flash drive, as well as a 8gb and a BRAND NEW 64gb. Regardless, the computer begins to boot from the USB drive, shows a list of my PCI stuff, and freezes up forever. One HUGE question ?????? Does Sysrescuecd contain ddrescue and everything else needed to perform this dreaded surgery? If it dont, why am I messing with it? If it does, I found a place linked from Distrowatch, which will sell CDs with pretty much any linux distro. They have Sysrescuecd for $2.95 plus $2.65 shipping. Before I even consider buying a Cd burner, and trying to burn Cds (which generally fails for me), I'll just buy the flipping CD ready to use. Of course, I suppose I'm still stuck with the linux command line (terminal) nightmares. Maybe I can get the help of someone at a nearby computer repair shop to use it. I dont feel confident at all trying to do this or any linux command line stuff on my own. And this is a rural farm community. There is no one around here who knows beans about computers. Most of the old farmers wont even touch a computer and the younger ones use their smartphone for the internet and probably never leave facebook. This is my last resort. I have a large 20lb sledge hammer just waiting to smash that hard drive. I dont even care about my data anymore. This is now going on two weeks of frustration, and has cost me close to $130 for new hard drives, backup drives, flash drives cables, and other crap, not to mention over 60 hours of my time. It's beyond saving data, it's now a matter of saving my nerves and mental condition. |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:01:30 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote: I'm sorry if it looks that way. We're just trying to help. I know you are, but some of you are way too advanced and I dont understand anything being said. I am a layman and an idiot when it comes to linux. But I have built several computers and know how to handle the older Windows and dos operating systems quite well. Do you have anyone local to you who'd be both knowledgeable and willing to help? Sometimes two heads are better than one. I just hate to see you give up and lose data, but if you really can't deal with even running a single Linux program, then that's probably your fate. I'm not a Linux fan either, but I was surprised at how easy ddrescue was and how successful it was. Unfortunately, this is a rural farm community. I have no one to help. People often ask me to help them with their computers. I usually refuse, unless it's a desktop with some obvious hardware problem. If I can buy it on a CD, I may give it a try. But I may ask you for help with those dreaded command lines. This will likely be my last try at saving this data. I have a farm to run and other stuff to do, and no goddamn computer is going to control my life. |
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