22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
5:13 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:04:14AM -0500, Chuck Noyes wrote:
I booted up the 5.0 KNOPPIX CD and tried dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb. There were no error messages and after about 30 minutes the 'dd' finished. However from KNOPPIX, I can't mount the new drive. the mount command (sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1) fails with:
Are you sure the copy completed all the way through the entire disk? dd will stop after errors unless you pass certain options: dd conv=noerror,sync Maybe you can try using "ddrescue" which will continue after errors and be smarter about copying blocks around errors: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html