The distro has had a complete overhaul and now has a new build system based around Debian Testing.įinnix is also a native 64-bit distro now and features several enhancements that make it more usable on modern machines. In fact, the project recently celebrated its 20 year anniversary with a new release. The Finnix distro has been around since the early 2000s and though the project had been languishing for quite a few years, it’s developer has now actively started working on it with regular releases. Here then are the best Linux repair and rescue distros we think are currently available. We looked at how swiftly the distro’s booting, whether there’s a graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI), and how comprehensive the tools are, among other aspects. Some of the basic factors we looked at are space for installation, compatibility with 32 and 64-bit architecture, and the existing documentation. We’ve evaluated these repair and rescue distros in numerous aspects. They not only collate a vast number of healing tools, but they’ll also go the extra mile and help you find the right tool for the job. This is where these specialized rescue distros come into the picture. However, like with most things open source (opens in new tab), it is the sheer number of choices that often confuse the average desktop user who might end up choosing the wrong tool for the job. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.Of course, there’s no shortage of tools and utilities that’ll help users with their broken Linux (opens in new tab) installs. Read Device Identity failed: scsi error unsupported field in scsi commandĪ mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. I tried running smartctl on it, never seen this type of error from that. I just remembered, i couldnt even mount the partition directly, getting the same ntfs error. Is that possible, or will that mess up the img file?ĭdrescue -v -n /dev/sdh recover.img recover.logĪnd hoping it can fill in the other partitions to the existing ~910G file.Īny help is appreciated since this is important data. Can i can use this recover.img file to fill in the rest of the drive over it, without having to rewrite the main 910GB partition in the image file? That will save 8 hours, and possibly the data before the drive becomes shrapnel. Maybe i can use the offset to get it mounted instead. In an effort to try other solutions to get it mounted, maybe there is something in the partition table that is needed.
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I'm open to suggestions on how to mount it. I've tried using mount, ntfs-3g, -o ro,loop, even by setting it as a loopback first them mounting that.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error` The error thats always returned:ĭoesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. the command i ran to capture imageĭdrescue -v -n /dev/sdh4 recover.img recover.log I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Warning: invalid flag 0x44dd of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)ĭisk /dev/sdh: 1000.2 GB, 1000204881920 bytes, 244190645 sectors
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5 I used ddrescue to build out a 910G disk partition (sdh4) from a 1Tb disk.