Re: dd_rescue nightmare --- help please

On Sep 6, 10:57 am, Unruh <unruh-s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trevor Hugh Davis <trevorhughda...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Okay, I was using dd_rescue to recover a partition from damaged disc
('/dev/sda2').  It was approximately 50 GB
I setup dd_rescue to write to /dev/sdb1
dd_rescue /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1
Problem was, /dev/sdb1 had all sorts of important stuff on it.  (it's
a FAT partition)

It is gone. If you made a backup, use that. If not, consider it an
Okay, I got it to the point where I can mount the drive. It then
shows me the directory structure but gives an i/o error when I try to
list the files. Sometimes it shows files in the wrong directory.

Does this give me some more options for recovery?

expensive learing experience.

I intended to write to /dev/sdb2!

Yes. mistakes get made. That is why backups exist.

dd_rescue /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1
I let the damn thing run for almost half an hour before I discovered
it.
I need to recover as much as possible -  the filenames if at all
possible.....
argh

Sorry, they are all gone. the directory was the first thing written over.

.

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