Bootable Linux to External Backup Drive
Posted: 01 Apr 2013, 06:52
I'm fairly certain this has been posted already, but, in case not, and so that I can find it (as my search has been unsuccessful):
- I used LinuxLive USB Creator to overwrite my external HDD and write it over with a "bootable copy of ubuntu"
- The entire drive is now formatted from NTFS to FAT32, with no files other than the bootable system files.
I am in the midst of the following:
run TestDisk
select the hard disk and the partition type (i.e. /dev/sdb, intel)
choose Advanced
select the partition (/dev/sdb)
choose Type,
enter the value corresponding to the previous filesystem (ntfs: 07)
choose Boot
choose RebuildBS <CURRENTLY WORKING>
List
Making sure the files exist, and then figuring out whether to write or not things back to the drive.
The questions I have are:
1) will this work, given that I've written a small number of files to the drive (i expect if it would, it would be minus the errors from those sectors being overwritten)
2) is there a previous example of this being documented as successful?
Thanks,
Bob
- I used LinuxLive USB Creator to overwrite my external HDD and write it over with a "bootable copy of ubuntu"
- The entire drive is now formatted from NTFS to FAT32, with no files other than the bootable system files.
I am in the midst of the following:
run TestDisk
select the hard disk and the partition type (i.e. /dev/sdb, intel)
choose Advanced
select the partition (/dev/sdb)
choose Type,
enter the value corresponding to the previous filesystem (ntfs: 07)
choose Boot
choose RebuildBS <CURRENTLY WORKING>
List
Making sure the files exist, and then figuring out whether to write or not things back to the drive.
The questions I have are:
1) will this work, given that I've written a small number of files to the drive (i expect if it would, it would be minus the errors from those sectors being overwritten)
2) is there a previous example of this being documented as successful?
Thanks,
Bob