Hey guys,

 

Read the FAQ, started the ddrescue for 2 unassigned drives. 

One drive was readable but windows crashed (moms laptop) so when putting it in my unraid server to see if I can copy files across to my array. She wants to backup her photos but it keeps coming up with loads of errors while copying. So i found ddrescue and thought I would try that. 

I am busy running it to another unassigned hdd i have running in my server. 

 

It is on Pass 5 and recovered 98.32% but it has come down to like 100-2000 B/s. It is still running and i see the read errors keep going up. 

I am pretty sure this last sectors will just be unrecoverable after 5 passes but it has been running for nearly a week and I cant be bothered to wait any longer.

 

I have never used ddrescue so was wondering if I can stop this and then see whats been copied across? 

Do I just mount the 'new drive' as an unassigned drive and see whats on it? is it as simple as that? dont want to interrupt this if its unusable anyway. Thanks for any input.

You can safely stop it and read the data that has been copied so far.

 

If you set the target to /dev/sdX, it's as simple as mounting it like normal.

 

You may need to reboot or reconnect the drive for UD to see the new partition table. You may also need to run a checkdisk on it from a Windows PC if it won't mount properly.

 

Just note that if you did not specify a mapfile, you can't resume the copy process if you wish to attempt to copy the bad sectors later. It will have to start over from the beginning.