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by helgatheviking
21 Jun 2012, 13:37
Forum: File recovery
Topic: Questions on DD rescue cloning to internal harddrive
Replies: 1
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Questions on DD rescue cloning to internal harddrive

i read another thread on making a clone of a failed disk with ddrescue from a linux recovery live disk like so:

sudo ddrescue --force -v -r 5 /dev/sdc /dev/sdb log

my questions are:

/dev/sdc is the "bad drive" in this instance. why wouldn't i use /dev/sdc1 is that is the partition on /sdc shown ...