Basically I have a Windows/Linux dual boot laptop with a Toshiba hard drive which is on its way out. I called Toshiba and got an RMA for the 30gb drive, and just last night finally got a "good" mirror of the drive created using dd_rescue (fantastic tool btw, much better than dd on failing drives).
So I have about 540kb of data (1100 sectors of 512 bytes each) on the 15gb Windows NTFS partition which failed during the copy, in a few main areas of the disk, basically bunched up with say 15 areas of 75 bad sectors each. I know the specific sector numbers thanks to the log produced by dd_rescue.
I am wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to use some tools to discover what ntfs files correspond to those bad sectors ie I input the sector number(s) and it says c:\pics\memphis\0001.jpg, c:\docs\work\blah.xls, etc as output.
Since I store a lot of digital pictures, personal email, and other things that I'd like to keep around undamaged if at all possible, I'm trying to figure out which files specifically were damaged so that I can recover them specifically from my backups. But I don't know what files in particular were damaged, of course. We aren't talking about megs or gigs of lost data so I figure the damage is probably contained in 15-20 files on my disk, max. In all likelihood, I don't even care about those 20 files. But I'd like to know for sure!
Thanks for any advice you may have. The linux partition had almost no bad sectors so that is not a concern.
So I have about 540kb of data (1100 sectors of 512 bytes each) on the 15gb Windows NTFS partition which failed during the copy, in a few main areas of the disk, basically bunched up with say 15 areas of 75 bad sectors each. I know the specific sector numbers thanks to the log produced by dd_rescue.
I am wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to use some tools to discover what ntfs files correspond to those bad sectors ie I input the sector number(s) and it says c:\pics\memphis\0001.jpg, c:\docs\work\blah.xls, etc as output.
Since I store a lot of digital pictures, personal email, and other things that I'd like to keep around undamaged if at all possible, I'm trying to figure out which files specifically were damaged so that I can recover them specifically from my backups. But I don't know what files in particular were damaged, of course. We aren't talking about megs or gigs of lost data so I figure the damage is probably contained in 15-20 files on my disk, max. In all likelihood, I don't even care about those 20 files. But I'd like to know for sure!
Thanks for any advice you may have. The linux partition had almost no bad sectors so that is not a concern.
