Recent content by darrenkarp

Hi Chris, If only I could remember what I did! I played with so many tools I've lost count! Cheers Darren

no problem. Thanks very much for all your help. I was hoping to be able to recover the data of the 500GB with Ubuntu at least.

I've no problem seeing the data with recovery software and I never re-formatted any drive (just messed up the partition file format it would see) but the cost of the recovery software is like $200. Do you know of anything that's free?

Anyone help?

just wanted to say a huge thanks for the support so far dos2unix. I'll try again tomorrow!

Thanks again. As it takes some time running the Ubuntu Live, installing the repos, etc. I'll do it tomorrow and hopefully you'll be able to advise on what I need to do!

Really sorry but getting terribly lost with all this. What I'd like to do firstly is get my internal 1TB drive back. Then I can worry about the 500GB external drive. I ran the fdisk -l command before I ran ddrescue and clearly screwed something up!

and btw the drive I'm trying to recover is a 500GB WDC HDD. In my rig I have a 500GB SDD, a 250GB SDD and a 1TB mechanical HDD. The other WDC HDD is on a USB to SATA cable.

Thanks very much for the reply. Before I try that do you have any advice on how I can get my 1TB drive back from being RAW (I obviously played around with ddrescure and overwrite the W10 partition)?

It appears the 1TB has turned into a RAW drive....what the heck do I do now guys?

I should add that now I've booted back into my W10 machine the 1TB HDD I have is showing but says it needs to be formatted! I did try ddrescue-gui to restore to it but quit after about 60 seconds...so I've gone from confused to raging as I need the stuff on the 1TB HDD!

Here you go (pasted from Ubuntu Live) hopefully I've captured what you need:- ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/loop0: 1.8 GiB, 1905045504 bytes, 3720792 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512...