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ddrescue - Recovering 16GB MicroSD

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10 minutes ago, DICKHILL said:

Thanks! ? I will stop ddrescue and give both PhotoRec & TestDisk a try!

I just thought that ddrescue were better to rescue/recover bad and/or corrupted files.

When it takes more than 2 days, you should start to question its reliability.

I have a bad 16GB MicroSD card, where I could read a small amount of its files. (Photos, Video etc.,)
I ran ddrescue --retry-passes=3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 which saves to an .ISO and .LOG-file on my USB3 SSD hard drive.
It have now been running for over 19 days and 2 hours.
Where last successful reading, were 13 days and 15 hours ago.
For the past 10 days, i think, it have been "scraping failed blocks... (forward)"

(1,64% rescued)
 

Is that really normal, for only 16GB ??

Should I just let it run or would you guys stop it?

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How full was the card before being corrupted? Thats imo way too long, considering that I've rescued maybe 4gigs of files off USB3 stick. I used PhotoRec/TestDisk https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

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3 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

How full was the card before being corrupted? Thats imo way too long, considering that I've rescued maybe 4gigs of files off USB3 stick. I used PhotoRec/TestDisk https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Thanks for the reply! ?

I actually don't know, since it comes from my dads phone.
I just wanted to rescue as many pictures as possible, since he didn't had a online solution (till now).


Can TestDisk recover files, when it's corrupted?
I have only used it to get back "normal deleted files or partitions".

But I also think this takes too long, since I can rebuild a 4TB RAID1 within two days.
(I know this is MicroSD and USB, which isn't as fast as SATA3...)
Actually, I just saw that the laptop only have USB2...... ?

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2 minutes ago, DICKHILL said:

Thanks for the reply! ?

I actually don't know, since it comes from my dads phone.
I just wanted to rescue as many pictures as possible, since he didn't had a online solution (till now).


Can TestDisk recover files, when it's corrupted?
I have only used it to get back "normal deleted files or partitions".

But I also think this takes too long, since I can rebuild a 4TB RAID1 within two days.
(I know this is MicroSD and USB, which isn't as fast as SATA3...)
Actually, I just saw that the laptop only have USB2...... ?

I think I used Photorec. Saved most parts of article I was writing. Pictures and all text. Just messed how it looked.

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1 minute ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

I think I used Photorec. Saved most parts of article I was writing. Pictures and all text. Just messed how it looked.

Thanks! ? I will stop ddrescue and give both PhotoRec & TestDisk a try!

I just thought that ddrescue were better to rescue/recover bad and/or corrupted files.

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10 minutes ago, DICKHILL said:

Thanks! ? I will stop ddrescue and give both PhotoRec & TestDisk a try!

I just thought that ddrescue were better to rescue/recover bad and/or corrupted files.

When it takes more than 2 days, you should start to question its reliability.

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If you're on Linux you can look into foremost

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1 minute ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

When it takes more than 2 days, you should start to question its reliability.

I would have given it one day, tops. - Especially for only 16GB.
But since I did a three times retry, I accepted that it could take longer time.
But 19 days is a bit too much..... ?
Even that it have been through multiple stages.
 

 

1 hour ago, vorticalbox said:

If you're on Linux you can look into foremost

Thanks! ?
I use Ubuntu Desktop, so I'll take a look at it.

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Thanks for the help with my adblocker @LoGiCalDrm! ?
I just wanted to show the process of the ddrescue, before I stopped it and tried the other solutions you guys came with.

 

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##### UPDATE:

I've just started PhotoRec, which seems to a lot faster with only 8 hours, rather than the 20 days ddrescue were running on... ?

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... and now after about 8 hours, it couldn't find any files and continues the search:
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So I think the MicroSD is done and I should only be happy about I even can read the small amount of files i could from the beginning. ?

Edited by DICKHILL
Updating after 8 hours of PhotoRec
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