• Using ddrescure to recover files from portable HDD
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So my portable HDD is having issues and chkdsk couldn't fix it. So i'm going to attempt recovering all the files that i can get off of it using ddrescue. I haven't used ddrescue before and i wanna make sure i use it properly. The manual says to do something like: ddrescue -f -n /dev/hda /dev/hdb logfile ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/hda /dev/hdb logfile fdisk /dev/hdb e2fsck -v -f /dev/hdb1 e2fsck -v -f /dev/hdb2 where dev/hda is the failing drive and dev/hdb is the place to rescue files to. In my situation, linux says the location of the portable drive is computer:/// when i plug it in, so should i use that? i'm not extremely familiar with linux. What does fdisk and e2fsck do?
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