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ddrescue for Windows

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Install ddrescue and recover data in Windows

Credit to phatboyj on stackoverflow for the script to list device paths in Cygwin.

First, we have to install a package manager for linux programs called Cygwin. Download it from https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe

Run the installer and follow the prompts–you can leave all options as their defaults. (You can specify a different folder on the Select Local Package Directory screen if you want to store the installer files somewhere else than your default Downloads folder.)
- On this screen you can pick any mirror.
When you come to the Select Packages screen, switch View to Full, type ddrescue in the Search field. To the right of ddrescue, under the New column, drop down the field that shows Skip and select 1.28-2 and click Next.

Click Next again to start the installation process and then click Finish once complete (you can uncheck the options to create icons if you want).
Next we’ll need to determine the identifier for the disk to be rescued. Open Windows Explorer (🪟+E)and note the drive letter.

Open a terminal by pressing 🪟+X and click on Terminal (Admin). Run the following command. (If you installed Cygwin to another location, this command will be the full path to Cygwin.bat)
```
C:\cygwin64\Cygwin.bat
```
In the Cygwin prompt, run the following script.
```
for F in /dev/s* ; do echo "$F    $(cygpath -w $F)" ; done
```
Make note of the /dev/s* path for the drive letter of the disk to be rescued. In this example, we are rescuing the optical D: drive and the device path is /dev/sr0

End the Cygwin session by running the command exit
Now we’ll run ddrescue using the device path we noted previously.

Run the following command. Specify the device path (/dev/s*) identified from the previous script and destination image file path (standard Windows path). It is also recomended to specify a logfile path in case the operation is interrupted (it can resume if the same command is run with the existing logfile specified). Take care to not save the image file to a path on the disk being imaged.
```
c:\cygwin64\bin\ddrescue -d -r3 [/dev path] [output image path] [logfile path]
```

In this example, /dev/sr0/ is our input device path, and we are saving the output image to C:\rescue\test.img along with a logfile.

With the saved image file, you may now use other tools to mount or extract files from the image. In this example, we imaged a CD-ROM disk and the image can be opened or extracted with 7-Zip or natively mounted in Windows.

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Markdown

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Markdown

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Documentation: Markdown Docs
RFC: RFC 7763
GitHub Documentation: Writing Markdown on GitHub

Cheat-Sheet

Headings

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6

Here is a heading: # Heading, don’t do this: #Heading

Emphasis

Emphasis, aka italics, with *asterisks* or _underscores_.

Strong emphasis, aka bold, with **asterisks** or __underscores__.

Combined emphasis with **asterisks and _underscores_**.

Strikethrough uses two tildes. ~~Scratch this.~~

Line Breaks

First line with two spaces after.  
And the next line.

Lists

Ordered Lists

1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item

Unordered Lists

- First item
- Second item
- Third item

Links

Link with text: [link-text](https://www.google.com)

Images

Image with alt text: ![alt-text](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/4d89cd791580bfb19080f8b0844ba7e1235aa4becc3f43dfd708a769e257d8de/68747470733a2f2f636e642d70726f642d312e73332e75732d776573742d3030342e6261636b626c617a6562322e636f6d2f6e65772d62616e6e6572342d7363616c65642d666f722d6769746875622e6a7067)

Image without alt text: ![](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/4d89cd791580bfb19080f8b0844ba7e1235aa4becc3f43dfd708a769e257d8de/68747470733a2f2f636e642d70726f642d312e73332e75732d776573742d3030342e6261636b626c617a6562322e636f6d2f6e65772d62616e6e6572342d7363616c65642d666f722d6769746875622e6a7067)

Code Blocks

Inline Code Block

Inline `code` has `back-ticks around` it.

Blocks of Code

Tables

There must be at least 3 dashes separating each header cell. The outer pipes (|) are optional, and you don’t need to make the raw Markdown line up prettily.

| Heading 1 | Heading 2 | Heading 3 |
|---|---|---|
| col1 | col2 | col3 |
| col1 | col2 | col3 |

Task list

To create a task list start line with square brackets with an empty space. Ex: [ ] and add text for task. To check the task replace the space between the bracket with “x”.

[x] Write the post
[ ] Update the website
[ ] Contact the user

Reference

Source: markdown.md Link: markdown guide

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