I'm confused by this as I would expect lots of read errors for this very slow progress. Just before I captured this screen shot, the remaining time was 71 days, so it does look like some progress is being made, but it's really slow (less that 1% recovered after 5 1/2 hours). Pct rescued: 0.94%, read errors: 2, remaining time: 7d 17h 52mĬopying non-tried blocks. Rescued: 9472 MB, bad areas: 0, run time: 5h 33m 5s Non-tried: 990732 MB, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 0 B/s
Opos: 9492 MB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 473 kB/s Ipos: 9492 MB, non-trimmed: 131072 B, current rate: 0 B/s $ sudo ddrescue -d /dev/sde jennifer.img jennifer.logfile After 5 1/2 hours, the ddrescue info looks like this: So I decided to pull the drive and run ddrescue.
#Ddrescue gui update
Firmware version is 04.01A04, and I don't see a firmware update on the WD support site. This is a WD10SPZX-24Z10 drive (WD BLUE (EIDE)). And yes, I do know that SMART is not definitive in terms of drive health. ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUEĪll other SMART values are OK. I booted it from an external drive, and SMART shows: Yet another broken hard drive question.Ĭustomer brought system to me with a "won't boot" issue. Now all you need is a drive with files that need recovering and a disk where they can be saved.Aloha everyone.
#Ddrescue gui mac
Your Mac will remember that so you can double-click the app to launch it. You’ll need to use the Control-click trick to open DDRescue-GUI the first time you launch the app. DDRescue-GUI’s graphic front end for ddrescue You’ll see a dialog saying DDRescue-GUI is from an unidentified developer. To get around that, Control-click the app’s icon and choose Open. Open the disk image and drag DDRescue-GUI to your Applications folder.ĭDRescue-GUI isn’t from a signed developer, which means you’ll get a warning saying you can’t run the app when it’s launched. It is designed to make ddrescue easier to use. That’s the Mac version, and like many other app installers it’s a disk image. What is DDRescue-GUI Abstract DDRescue-GUI is an open source GUI front-end for GNU ddrescue. Look for the list of downloads and click on DDRescue-GUI64bit.dmg. Like everything else we’ve installed, it’s free.įire up your favorite browser and head over to the DDRescue-GUI website. Using ddrescue from the command line isn’t mind-melting difficult, but I find it a lot easier with a graphic front-end. If you’ve had enough of the command line for now, however, we can put a graphic interface on ddrescue. If you’re comfortable with the command line, you can check out how ddrescue works with this Terminal command: man ddrescue
#Ddrescue gui install
Here’s what you need to enter in Terminal: brew install ddrescue Installing ddrescue involves more command line action. If there’s a problem, Homebrew will tell you what command to type to fix whatever is wrong. After Homebrew finishes installing, enter this command to make sure it’s working properly: brew doctor The Homebrew installer checks for Xcode’s command line tools and helps you install them if they aren’t already there. It’s free, and installs fairly quickly using this Terminal command: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL )" Homebrew is a cool utility for finding and installing command line tools like ddrescue. We’ll get the command line tools installed in the next step. If Xcode isn’t already on your Mac, don’t worry about it. If you’ve already installed Xcode on your Mac, you can get the command line tools using this command in Terminal: xcode-select -install Installing ddrescue requires Xcode, or more accurately, Xcode’s command line tools.
#Ddrescue gui free
Everything you need to enter in Terminal is in this how-to, so feel free to copy and paste instead of typing. What’s it’s up and running we can dive in and get ddrescue installed. Before we start you’ll need to launch Terminal.