To dd or to rsync, that's the question...

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-12-01 17:12:12, Dan Thurman wrote:
 ...
> I tried ddrescue and it seems to "work", except that there was
> 4 errors reported.  When I went to look at the mount, it seems
> to indicate that the partition was not readable, perhaps left in
> some unknown state. 

Take a look at the ddrescue logfile.

> Are there any ddrescue options that I
> need to be aware of?  The command I used was:
> 
> ddrescue /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2

info ddrescue

Looks like you didn't make a logfile.

I would have copied the entire drive, not just a partition.

> I tried to go into a working OS (XP) and tried to use the
> chkdsk /F E: and it says that it could not locate the master
> tables and kills chkdsk.  It also says it is not a NTFS partition
> either.
> 
> This of course was on a Vista partition.

Again, RTM, esp. ch. 5.

-- 
____________________________________________________________________
TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
      '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>