My external hard disk (WD: 1T , 800 GB used , NTFS file system) before using GNU ddrescue had 52 Pending_Sector with 0 reallocated (remapped) sector. After several minutes, Pending_Sector increased to 58 still 0 zero sector reallocate.I used ddrescue to create an image of whole hard (/dev/sdd).
I ran ddrescue and after few minutes I stopped it due to several issues:
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Hard drive making noise like “Vizzz” “Vizzzz” possibly buzzing sound.
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The read speed was very low.
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Complete recovery would take many days.
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Several months ago when I connected to Windows , I was unable to access drives.
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Now, I am mainly intrested in copying several GB (less than 50 GB) data (I believe I can’t access entire of drive directly)
what solutions do I have? -
Can I continue using
ddrescuewith this situation? -
There are several software for disk repair like Victoria for Windows, HDAT, and Western Digital Data Lifeguard. Is it advisable to use one of them?
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Is there a way to directly copy specific folders directly from faulty hard drive either in Linux or Windows to new hard drive?
Before using ddrescue:
source-destination-read speed:
some read error:
After few minutes running ddrescue:
