ddrescue on mac hd help
I am doing this from a mint cd but thought that there might be some knowledgeable people that could help me here.
I am trying to recover a mac hard drive for a friend. I used the following command:
mint@mint ~ $ sudo ddrescue --no-split /dev/sdb2 /media/D654B10D54B0F0FB/image /media/D654B10D54B0F0FB/logfile
Does that seem like it would work to any gurus out there? Will I be able to mount that image on a mac machine by renaming it to .dmg?
It is currently at 97 GB out of 250 GB and shows 0 errrors and 0 error size does that mean that it is getting everything?
Thanks so much.
I posted this on another forum if it helps:
Ok just got a failing mac hard drive from a friend who wants to get there pictures back. I have managed to copy most of the data that she wanted off but I am wondering if anyone has suggestions what the best way to recover data from a mac drive is. The way that I did it since I am not a mac person is that I used macdrive 8 on a pc and used sync toy to copy the files until they all copied. The frustrating thing with the drive is that it seems to just drop out randomly when reading lots/large files. So anyways I now have the pictures ect but I think that she used iphoto and was wondering exactly what I would need to backup to put it back the way it was before.
Anyone have experience with ddrescue on a mac? Also I do have access to a mac that I could hook it up to running 10.6.3.
ddrescue doesn't split the
ddrescue doesn't split the error areas until it has gotten everything else it can get, so the --no-split option is used far to often, in my opinion.
But aside from that, everything seems to be fine. You are getting data back and there are no errors.
I don't know if you will be able to simply remane the image as .dmg and mount it. You should be able to mount it as a loop devide from the command line. I think that works the same on a Mac.
cd /path/to/external/drive/on/your/mac
mkdir mnt
sudo mount -o image mnt
you should be able to see the contents of the dive in mnt/