[Cialug] ddrescue + kpartx = bacon

[Eric Junker]

I've heard that doing data recovery with the drive attached via USB is 
not recommended. Apparently you cannot talk directly to the hard drive 
unless you have control of the ATA adapter, which does not happen in USB 
drives.

I can't remember if I've posted this before but this is a great overview 
of data recovery from Scott Moulton. He has given several presentations 
on data recovery and forensics at Defcon and Blackhat.

ftp://ftp.myharddrivedied.com/Presentations/Advanced-MHDD/MHDD-Advanced-Diag.pdf

Eric

On 5/8/2013 1:02 PM, David Champion wrote:
> I was using Mandriva Linux (about any distro should work), with the bad HD
> on a usb adapter, and writing the data to another external usb hard drive.
> There are obviously faster ways to do that... I have an esata drive but
> didn't have that with me when I started the recovery, the internal drive
> didn't have enough space for the 320gb drive image.