Copying A Disk

[Pete Holsberg]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> You posted this line from your log:
> Jul 11 21:32:36 Ubu kernel: [ 5816.770911] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached
> SCSI disk
>
> So running:
> sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
> and entering 'p' should show you the partition table.  If you've
> unplugged/replugged or left it idle, you may want to unplug/replug
> once more and look at the tail of /var/log/messages and make sure the
> device is still being attached at /dev/sdb.  Look for the "Attached
> SCSI disk" message like above.
>
> If you can't get fdisk to read the disk/partitions, that's bad news.
> At that point I'd run dd_rescue against the whole disk and cross my
> fingers (ddrescue /dev/sdb ~/disk_image).  If you get enough data, you
> could then use dd to write the disk image directly to another hard
> disk - but be sure that the target drive contains nothing that you
> want to keep!!!  Writing the disk image directly to disk will
> overwrite anything on the target disk, including the partition table.
> And of course the target disk needs the same or greater capacity than
> the original, damaged disk.

Thanks, Chris. ddrescue terminated with 0 bytes rescued! I guess this is 
toast, as someone suggested.

Thanks for your help and patience.