Copying A Disk

[Pete Holsberg]

Derek Broughton has written on 7/12/2008 7:11 PM:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:
>
>   
>> Derek Broughton has written on 7/12/2008 1:16 PM:
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>> NOT trying to run an OS off that disk. Where did people get the idea
>> that I was????
>>     
> I never suspected you were.  My point was that if a disk is damaged to the
> point that you can't boot off it, it is often still quite readable when
> mounted as an external drive on another system, and so "dd" seemed quite
> likely to be overkill.  otoh, from later posts by you, I'd say the drive's
> in worse shape than that - ddrescue seems like about the only chance.
>   

ddrescue returned immediately with 0 bytes recovered/restored/rescue.


The interesting thing is that Spinrite, probably via the BIOS, can see and
access the drive, and read up to the first 21.5%, while neither Windows
nor Linux can access the drive at all.