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I am trying to recover a 2T WD win10 system drive and I have it on a linux MInt machine and I'm running dd on it. I'm getting only 15KB/s. This means an enormous number of failed reads doesn't it? I just got quoted a figure of something like 100 billion reads to get 1 GB written. Since...

Yep. Thanks for that. Any special route going to be needed for the formatting seeing as it can't be mounted read/write or that wouldn't be an issue for the formatting prog? Not much chance of fixing the file issue. I've been searching and posting on forums including this one and no one seems...

Not really 'broke a drive' . But kind of. I have a Western Digital 2T that was a Win10 system disk and suddenly couldn't be read, couldn't even be seen by Windows. Put it in my LinuxMint box and found it could be seen but could not be mounted fully - only as read only. But mounted read only...

Well I've rescued my files. I managed to mount the clone read only and it's over there now on that slow machine copying 9,000 image files off the clone onto the main drive. Then I can start looking for the next category of files I want to keep - like my pdf's say. So now I've got two drives...

Well we're closing in on it. The cloning finished without a hitch - and now I've got two drives that won't mount! :) I got the error message when I double clicked on it to mount it: (had to copy this out longhand - I don't know how to keep those messages as a file) Error mounting /dev/sdc4...

Yep. That was it. I installed the correct package - didn't uninstall the other, didn't see how to, didn't seem to matter, it installed and it is now running.. I've got a screen up.. now to figure out how to save the partition... I thank you for your patient help... and sorry about my...

actually I might see the problem right there - is says ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9..etc. this machine is indeed an amd machine. I think. but I've installed hddsuperclone for intel. I was thinking of the other machine - the one from which the bad drive came.... I guess that'd be it?

Thanks for your help. It is much appreciated. All this is intended merely to copy a partition from my bad drive to a new drive. The ddrescue manual is just not quite clear enough for me. This hddsuperclone is mentioned as superceding and being better than ddrescue, that's why I'm doing it...

O.K. I got the correct file and downloaded and installed it. Everything seemed okay. But it won't run. So I ran the command to install the dependencies but it still won't run. Here's the terminal output: dave@linuxMint ~ $ sudo superclone [sudo] password for dave: sudo: superclone...

Thanks for that. :)

I just downloaded the rpm file for superclone onto my mint system but now i'm at a loss as to what to do with it, how to install it. Can anyone help?

Hi... no it is not. It's a few thousand non-commercial photograph and a few hundreds downloaded pdf's that I guess I'll accumulate again over time... And I've just come here from your post on hddguru where you recognised this problem/this poster as being identical. You say you'll only...

I have it viewable on a Mint system and I was able to do a SMART test and it passed that OK. Can I interrogate the drive somehow and ascertain if the pcb is locked as you say? There's a suggestion that the whole thing has something to do with Windows and hibernation. If you're professionals in...

True? That's the label they chose to identify it with when they sold it to me - that's from the receipt, I thought it would be definitive. I've got no idea what the orpm means but the rest seems fairly clear to me and I figured professionals would have no problems. It's a western digital...

I've had this Western Digital Blue 256MB Cache 2T since January and last week it died. It was in a Win10 box as the system disk and suddenly I couldn't even boot up. I put it on a Linux Mint system and it could see it alright but said that it was unmountable. Took it back to another Windows...