Questions tagged [safecopy]
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How to select, copy and paste some columns from different files and create one file from them?
I want to create and organize data in a file from a number of files by selecting parts of the columns of the given files. I have more than 10 file to copy the second, third and forth columns of each file and pasting them into a single file.
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How do I run safecopy in terminal?
I'm very new to terminal and Linux. I have a crashed external hard drive that is spinning but won't appear on the desktop. I ran safecopy from terminal and this is what it said at the end
Description of output:
. : Between 1 and 1024 blocks…
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Recover audio CD after safecopy
I have an audio CD (burnt a few years ago) that I want to rip (with K3B or other) to flac. K3B was unable to complete and I realized the CD was damaged.
I managed to recover the data with safecopy and the --stage-1-3 arguments. From the output (see…
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Interpreting safecopy's output to a device file
So recently we've had a dying hard drive that we tried to copy all the data from using safecopy. The documentation as well as any guides I could find specified that safecopy's output has to be an image file. The command processed, but only yielded…
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How to clone a read-only portion of /proc file system
The problem with reading /proc file system is that it is not atomic. I tried using a library (procfs in Python) that wishes to read it, but it has glitches about 5% of the time because the process that I am after is now gone. So, I wish to copy…
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SafeCopy worked but I have a few problems
I had a 60G NTFS drive that had 28 physically bad blocks as reported by GParted. I used SafeCopy to recover to the root of an empty 500G drive using SafeCopy defaults. Everything worked as expected and I can access the data fine, but now the 500G…
Jimmi
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SafeCopy manually finish ISO
Good Morning,
I am currently helping a good friend to recover her broken 1TB external HDD. She dropped the drive and now, it cannot be mounted anymore. After some research I gave safecopy a try. I am working with a Kali Linux live CD and an internal…
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Recover Data from Failing External Hard Drive
I am attempting to recover the data from a failing Seagate external hard drive. I was going to attempt using ddrescue or safecopy. I am currently using Kali. The drive will not mount and the output from dmesg is:
[ 657.245471] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached…
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ddrescue: 0% rescued on audio CD with 1 track that skips
I'm trying to get some lightly scratched albums (audio CDs) onto my computer via ddrescue. I ran the program on one disc with one track that has skipping problems, and it rescued 0%. The .iso was unmountable.
I tried safecopy (ran for 3 days) and…
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Safecopy a whole directory
Safecopy can rescue a file or a partition from a failing hard drive. But what if you want to rescue a whole directory? It doesn't look like there's a way to do this in safecopy.
Is there a command that will run safecopy, recusrively, on every…
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basic help with safecopy
I have a drive with "Many Bad Sectors". After much deliberation I've chosen to try recovering with safecopy (the choices of tools are overwhelming, and they are all just as cryptic to me - but I digress).
There aren't any tutorials explaining the…
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How to interpret the output of safecopy
Just as an example, this is one typical output line.
...........................[12767109](+112394240){X [12792709] X}[12818309](+209715200)
I have gone through the DESCRIPTION OF OUTPUT in safecopy's manpage but I still am not quite sure what…
Isopycnal Oscillation
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Cannot find SafeCopy In Ubuntu
Sorry, I'm very new with this.
I have installed SafeCopy with the following commands, and everything was looking fine.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install safecopy
My problem is that I just cannot find the application in Ubuntu. It is not in…
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How can I rescue broken data on an USB stick when ddrescue and safecopy do not find any errors on the drive?
After a friend wanted to copy pictures onto my 8 GB USB stick all data is corrupted.
The USB stick was mainly used on Windows before. Also my friend used Windows to copy the pictures. Maybe he unplugged it while the writing process was not yet…
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Why safecopy won't recover to /media/?
I tried to recover an HDD to a mounted device:
safecopy --stage1 /dev/sdb3 /media/Volume/abc
and it says Error opening destination: /media/Volume/abc is a directory.
If I run safecopy with
safecopy --stage1 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc1
it starts working.…
Steve
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