[sleuthkit-users] Recovering files from damaged disk

[Colby Gutierrez-K. <co...@ge...>]

Hello,

I am attempting to recover data from a physically damaged disk.  I  
was able to dd
the first GB (including partition info) of the disk and I can run the  
sleuthkit tools
and do find some useful info on it.  However, to get at the rest of  
the disk, I manually
skipped past the damaged sectors on disk using dd and was able to  
read another
much larger block of data (16GB) and then some shorter sections after  
that
(5x500MB each).  I noted down which sectors this blocks were started  
physically
on the slice.  Now I am trying to sort out if I can put these pieces  
back together
enough so that I can use the regular sleuthkit tools on the whole  
fragmented
mess.  Is this doable?  Is there a recipe for working through this?

- Colby