Friday, 27 December 2019

data recovery - ddrescue really slow on failing drive

I have a failing drive which reads at 24 kbit/s.  As it its total capacity is 3.4 TB, it will take probably 3 years to recover the data.  Is there any way if performing a backup of the MFT (table of contents), then every potential sector which reads at a better rate as an image file so I could mount in the meantime even if it will be incomplete in order to recover some "critical" files ASAP?

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