{"id":1162,"date":"2014-06-17T21:19:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2014-06-17T21:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:50:44","slug":"the-vaio-travail-2-the-hard-disk-data-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/the-vaio-travail-2-the-hard-disk-data-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vaio travail [2] – The hard disk data recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I had my hard disk fried <\/a>and I hadn’t backed up data (some of it important) from it in some months, I had to recover data from it at any cost.<\/p>\n

And for that all I needed was a Linux live OS that could either run off the CD drive or a usb with DDrescue<\/a>, TestDisk<\/a> and Photorec<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Knoppix <\/a>was one of the earliest live CDs I had used and had them all. But, I decided to use Ubuntu rescue remix<\/a> which had a nice set of software for rescuing dead or dying hard disks. I guess you can also recover the latest version of Ubuntu, boot from it and have access\u00a0 to\u00a0(or download and install) all these recovery software.<\/p>\n

While TestDisk could rebuild or recover boot sector on either FAT 32 \/ NTFS apart from un-deleting files, it didn’t work on my damaged hard disk.<\/p>\n

So, I decided to use DDrescue, which blindly copies data from one file or block device to another, trying to rescue the good parts first in case of read errors. All I had to do was attached an external hard disk with sufficient free disk space (atleast as much as the failed disk from which I was recovering the files), mount it and run DDrescue with 3 retry passes (which wasn’t necessary as most of the disk was recovered in one pass).<\/p>\n

\"BpJHQKEIMAANu_B\"<\/p>\n

DDrescue ran for a full week and rescued almost 70% of the data on the hard disk. I had to Ctrl-C and abort it as it was doing another pass but wasn’t getting any data.<\/p>\n

Once the old hard disk partition recover was done to my satisfaction, I mounted it like a regular partition and copied back files to a new hard disk.<\/p>\n

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I am deliberately not going into more details on the rescuing process. You can read more about data recovery (including use of DDrescue) on ubuntu website<\/a> and use of TestDisk and Photorec on CGSecurity’s website<\/a>.I would highly recommend going thru those website and knowing more about these fabulous tools to recover data.<\/p>\n

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