So, your hard disk crashed? You rescued it with ddrescue/other tools? Now you don’t know if the files are still intact? Here some solutions for some media file formats: Movies (avi, mpeg, mp3, mkv, webm, … everything ffmpeg can decode.) ffmpeg -v error -i “$1″ -f null – 2>”$1”.log decodes a movie or audio file […]
When I did and wrote the first post I did not know of ddrescue. And it worked like a walk in the park, it just took eight and a half hours… /tmp # ddrescue -d -r3 /dev/sdd2 blah.img blah.logfile GNU ddrescue 1.21 Press Ctrl-C to interrupt ipos: 113173 MB, non-trimmed: 0 B, current rate: 0 B/s […]
A neighbour talked to me on the street lately that his laptop hard disk may be damaged, because his laptop didn’t even boot anymore. The data on the disk is important to him so he asked if I may take a look. So that’s what I did with this hdd, a WD 500GB. Put it […]
OMG. There is a bug, damn. Can’t continue today. -> Next day -> Updating. Oh, the bug is gone, great! *continuing* 🙂