Will Cloning My Drive Also Clone Missing Files??

[Barefoot_Wanderer]

Hi I have a Seagate 80GB (Model: ST380020A) from 2002, it failed in 2004.

Because it's an old drive (IDE) I'm going to attempt to clone it in an old PC so I can connect it internally. This is the original PC the drive came from which makes me wonder whether to use an older version of Knoppix...

I have a Knoppix live CD from (approx) 2009 so can I follow Jared's tutorial:

https://www.data-medics.com/forum/h...ive-with-bad-sectors-using-ddrescue-t133.html

with this CD? or is it better to use the suggested Knoppix in the tutorial.?

Another question, will ddrescue copy the missing files? When I open the drive currently it shows empty when in fact there's about 80GB of data I'm trying to recover.


Help appreciated.

 

[Jared]

[post]13578[/post] with this CD? or is it better to use the suggested Knoppix in the tutorial.?

Any build of Linux will work. It really doesn't matter.

Yes, ddrescue will copy everything it can, including deleted data. It's a block level copy program, so it's not even looking at the file system. So the point is that afterward you can run the logical recovery (using data recovery software) against the good copy.