Hey everyone, using ubuntu terminal to image my broken hdd, however as soon as i start the command:
sudo ddrescue -n /dev/sde /media/ubuntu/EMPTY /media/ubuntu/1C41-D695/log.txt
in a minute or two it goes straight to 1 errsize 1500gb, and it then says finished

so i am assuming it encountered a bad sector or something (in disks it was labeled as 669 bad sectors) and gets stuck on it, i tried reversing, no splitting, etc, still same, i also made a long log of this problem but the person trying to help me doesnt seem to know anything else i could do, here is the full log if someone is willing to read it up:

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170938- ... te-720011/

Basically, that means the drive failed before ddrescue could read much. It might be a good time to get it assessed by a pro with the right tools to properly diagnose the drive and safely get the data recovered.

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

could you recommend me a pro walk in store in london?

PCImage was already recommended to you in your other thread. He is at the closest trusted lab to you that I know of.

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

contacted PCImage, but for the sake of convenience i wanna broaden my posibilities, anybody know any other companies as close to london as possible?

Try ddrescue again with -R (reverse) parameter.
Is it connected to usb or sata ?

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From page:

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170938- ... te-720011/

... you can try asking over at hddguru, that forum's members (besides a few casual passers by) are mainly professionals (usually with a very bad character, extremely unwilling to help and often disturbed by the questions of newbies, but that obviously know where their towel is)...

Hey everyone, thought id mention that i finally went through with the data recovery with PCImage, i actually went in person from london to peterborough to physically hand delivery the dead hdd and a fresh new hdd to the shop, took ages to get there but when i did everything was simple and easy, simply handed in the drive, they already knew of me coz of the email communications, had an overall summary of the problems of the hdd and the process of the recovery.

the turn around recovery was incredible...next day they identified the problem, i confirmed with the fix, and day after it was all recovered on my spare hdd, instead of picking it up in person they first cloned the hdd to a backup, and put another clone on my new fresh hdd and sent it back to me (this way if the package was lost they still had a clone, which i couldnt do as i didnt know how to fix the problem myself)

Here were the problems found:

1. Media degradation (bad sectors), possibly caused by the contamination, but also possibly the initial underlying issue in the first place.

2. Firmware module corruption, in particular the translator. Almost certainly caused by improper use of an “internet fix” which does not take into account entries in the NRG

3. Quite possibly some file system damage, the extent of which is unknown as of yet.




So for anyone on this forum wondering...go ahead with PCImage, thumbs up from me

I wouldn't have expected anything less from PCImage.

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

congratulations

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