There is light at the end of the tunnel which doesn't appear to
be an oncoming train ;/
This is a manually created transcript of what I've done this
morning.
I physically can *NOT* do a copy-n-paste of what's happening as
it is
currently in progress on a separate _intentionally isolated_ laptop.
My procedure has been to login "root" at the Jessie boot screen.
I did *NOT* login as "richard" followed by executing "su" in a
terminal.
There *appears* to be subtle differences -- more investigation
needed.
A. Examine state of state of proposed target {/dev/sdb6} and the
defective
drive {dev/sdc} using Gparted
I deleted existing but empty /dev/sdb6, created a new one
with an ext4
file system labeled "recovered".
The damaged drive shows as /dev/sdc partitioned as
/dev/sdc1 ntfs primary -- warning triangle and "---"
for used/unused space
/dev/sdc2 fat32 primary -- displays reasonable values
for used/unused
/dev/sdc3 extended
/dev/sdc5 ntfs logical -- displays reasonable values
for used/unused
/dev/sdc6 ntfs logical -- displays reasonable values
for used/unused
/dev/sdc7 ntfs logical -- displays reasonable values
for used/unused
B. Prepare the mount point
mkdir /mnt/my_sdb6
C. Make it permanent by editing /etc/fstab by adding this line
/dev/sdb6 /mnt/my_sdb6 ext4 rw 0 0
D. Mount it for the first time
mount /mnt/my_sdb6
E. Attempt rescue with
ddrescue -p /dev/sdc1 /mnt/my_sdb6/my_sdc1 /mnt/my_sdb6/sdc1_log
The rescue appears to be progressing. ddrescue has been running
for 1/2 and reports rescuing ~47GB without any _reported_ errors.
That's unexpected as the partition was the Windows C: drive and
WinXP refused to boot. At the current rate I've another 2 hrs
minimum. I'm not concerned about the speed as both hard drive are
on USB2 ports.