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Starting positions: infile = 0 B, outfile = 0 B Copy block size: 128 hard blocks
ipos: 160041 MB, errors: 298949447, average rate: 2 B/s opos: 160041 MB
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A disk that I purchased new, and consolidated all my data to, actually ended up losing it's primary partition table and suffered from unknown other corruption and/or damage. Unfortunately, because real life has other demands and because I had a fairly recent backup and because I had undue faith in the drive, I did not have a current [[backups |backup]] procedure in place to protect myself from data loss. So, I found myself investigating every known tool and technique for data recovery. The best tool I found was [http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html GNU ddrescue] ([http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html manual])
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About to copy 160041 MBytes from /dev/sde to /media/disk-a/backups/greg-laptop/recovery.img
Hard block size: 512 bytes
Max_retries: 0 Split: yes Truncate: no
Current status
rescued: 8157 MB, errsize: 151 GB, current rate: 0 B/s
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