Questions on DD rescue cloning to internal harddrive
Posted: 21 Jun 2012, 13:37
i read another thread on making a clone of a failed disk with ddrescue from a linux recovery live disk like so:
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 by fdisk?
will i lose everything in /dev/sdb? ie will everything be overwritten by the contents of /sdc? if so, how can i avoid that? the drive i am attempting to rescue is a 500gb fantom usb and i'd like to store the contents of the image on my internal hard drive.
i've sort of pieced the following together and am wondering if it is correct. should i?
i think this was working last night, but it stalled and so i have to start again. i'm glad to have read the tip on storing the log file. finally, should i expect this to take days to copy?
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sudo ddrescue --force -v -r 5 /dev/sdc /dev/sdb log/dev/sdc is the "bad drive" in this instance. why wouldn't i use /dev/sdc1 is that is the partition on /sdc shown by fdisk?
will i lose everything in /dev/sdb? ie will everything be overwritten by the contents of /sdc? if so, how can i avoid that? the drive i am attempting to rescue is a 500gb fantom usb and i'd like to store the contents of the image on my internal hard drive.
i've sort of pieced the following together and am wondering if it is correct. should i?
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sudo mkdir /media/USB
sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask 0222 /dev/sdc1 /media/USB
sudo ddrescue --force -v -r 5 /dev/sdc /media/USB/image.dd /media/USB/log