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Recover failed HDD using Open Source tools

This will show how to recover failed hard disk using Linux and open source tools

Failed hard disk in this case means:

  • S.M.A.R.T. not healthy.
  • Hard disk have some bad sector
  • Some data cannot read and make system slow
  • The disk are still available in /dev/

The tools

  • Ubuntu Linux or other GNU Linux
  • GNU ddrescue

Process:

  • install the tools
  • # apt-get install gddrescue smartmontools
  • Plug your failed hdd to linux system, use dmsg | tail to determine what device name were shown in this case is sdb ( /dev/sdb )
  • If you want to recovery whole drive to another new healthy disk (disk to disk), 
    • # ddrescue -f -n /dev/sdb /dev/sdX logfile.log # where X is your new healthy disk
      • The option -f and -n said force dump "only" the good parts from your failed hdd to new one, this will skip the error parts and make this activity faster than the dd command.
      •  ddrescue use logfile.log file next time for recover the error parts.
    • Now the error parts.
    • # ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdX logfile.log # where X is your new healthy disk
      •  The option -r3 said try 3 times to read error parts, you can change the desire value depends on your hdd health.
    • You may or may not check your  new disk (fsck) when finish.
Summary and suggestion:
  • Always monitor your hard disk health, use smartmontools and setup the daemon will help.

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