I am backing up a dying hard drive using dd. Unfortunately the process is taking very long (95KB/s) and I would like to see if I can get some of my files from the part that is already copied (~26GB). I used scalpel and I managed to recover a small part of files, mostly jpeg images. I am afraid that this program finds files that I have deleted and not the ones that are actually still there. Are there any alternatives I can use?
I am trying to mount the already recovered part but it fails. Do I need to recover the whole disk before I can mount it?