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This is what I did, not having seen this web site, but I couldn't remove the drive, unless I get the screw driver out and unplug the cables!!!
Remove from your computer or laptop any external storage device other than the SD card which will be formatted (USB sticks, external HDDs, etc.)
to avoid ...

Thanks very much, does it use the same command structure as dd??

I've just found dd rescue gui, it look much easier.....

A slight delay, as I ordered the wrong disk as a back up!!!!

Hi, thanks for the information.
Being the idiot that I am, of course, the disk is not backed up.

I propose to make a copy of the disk, before I start.

Can you please advise on the linux command to create an image of the drive, if you think that will be best??

dd if=/dev/input/DEVICE-HERE of=/dev ...

Hi, I've just tried to format/erase a SD card, via a USB reader/writer.

Unfortunately, I had not inserted it correctly, so it was not in use. As it has always been the last item in the output from fdisk -l, I used the last entry, but it was no longer the one that I should have formatted.

So, I now ...