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Usacomp2k3 wrote:Actually just got a copy of Spinrite burned and am going to try it now. Good timing
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Well my opinion is that it's not worth it. I couldn't find any functionality to offload the data onto another drive. It just fixes files/partitons It seems to be recovery for soft-errors only, as opposed to failing drives. So doesn't help in my case.
Currently using gddrescue on the Ubuntu liveCD.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:So ddrescue seems to be working. For future reference, just throw in a live cd and do:
"sudo apt-get install gddrescue"
Then in order to do the backup, given /dev/sdb1 being a bad drive and /dev/sda1 being a good drive, you do this:
"sudo ddrescue /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1"
At least that's what I did. I'll check back tomorrow and see if it worked.
gerbilspy wrote:Usacomp2k3 wrote:So ddrescue seems to be working. For future reference, just throw in a live cd and do:
"sudo apt-get install gddrescue"
Then in order to do the backup, given /dev/sdb1 being a bad drive and /dev/sda1 being a good drive, you do this:
"sudo ddrescue /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1"
At least that's what I did. I'll check back tomorrow and see if it worked.
I guess this is a dumb question, but could I use this technique on a Windows machine? A friend just called me and I now have a data recovery mission!
bitvector wrote:Usacomp2k3 wrote:(since linux won't write to ntfs).
Sure it will. It has for a long time now. apt-get install ntfs-3g (or ntfs-config, for a graphical configuration). You might need to enable universe repositories if they aren't already enabled.
Ragnar Dan wrote:How about mounting NTFS drives in a Linux VM? I checked fdisk and couldn't find any other devices but the one set up when I first installed VMWare. I also couldn't find ntfs-config when trying to apt-get it. But that means nothing until I can figure out how to make my VM read my drives... anyone know if it's possible?
is my friend.**** -pcfx /dev/hdc1
bitvector wrote:You can do it by manually editing the vmx file, but I don't know the syntax for specifying Windows physical disks. I do know you set the ideX:X.deviceType = "rawDisk" (or scsiX:X.deviceType).
I'm not sure if you're just trying to share files, but if so, you could enable file sharing on the Windows host and use Samba in Linux to access it. Alternately, you could run an ssh server in the Linux guest and use psftp (Putty's sftp) from Windows to get and put files.
Ragnar Dan wrote:What I'd really like is if I could Copy and Paste from Windows to Linux and back. VMware makes it seem as though it might be possible, what with it having an Edit menu item with the standard features, but it doesn't work in either direction, which is rather frustrating.