Re: Help with ddrescue

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:38:18 German wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:31:10 +0100
>
> Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 11:18:34 German wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 May 2015 08:57:28 +0100
> > >
> > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 01:15:20 German wrote:
> > > > > Well, Wanderer, I got the drive cloned, it took three days,
> > > > > with no positive results.
> > > >
> > > > What results did you expect?  You cloned it.  You now presumablty
> > > > have a clone.  You can now work on the clone.  What else?
> > > >
> > > > USB is very slow.  Might you be able to work on teh clone more
> > > > directly?
> > > >
> > > > Lisi
> > >
> > > Great. And what this work involves?
> >
> > People have made a lot of suggestions in this thread.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Just rereading the thread, couldn't find any. What tools to use and how
> to use them?

You could start with the first two messages in the thread, other than yours.  
Counting yours, the second and fourth:

Gary Dale said:
"Next you can run whatever rescue software you like on the failed.img 
file to see if you can recover anything. I usually start off with 
something simple like fsck before trying testdisk."

The Wanderer gave you a detailed recovery plan.  Try reading what he advised.  
I find I can't really just pick out one little sound bite - but he also says 
to start with fsck.

Lisi