[lug] disk image with dd

[Gary Hodges]

Thanks for the suggestion of dd_rhelp.  I'll give it a shot today.

Gary

Ben wrote:
> If you have any errors on the hard drive, dd will just stop. I'm a big 
> fan on dd_rhelp (I think it is just a wrapper to ddrescue which is a 
> wrapper to dd) as it jumps over bad regions (fills them with 0's) and 
> comes back and figures out of the size of the bad region smartly. You 
> can start/stop it many times and it picks up where it was left off. 
> Basically it spends its time getting the 'easy' data and then 
> progressively works harder on the data near bad regions. But otherwise, 
> you are right about the mount command and making a disk image.
> 
> Gary Hodges wrote:
>> Hi.  I have a drive from a Windows machine (NTFS) that I think may have 
>> some problems.  I'd like to make a copy to play with so I can leave the 
>> original undisturbed for now.  Is this what I should do?
>>    dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdy   # where x=original, y=copy
>>
>> Along those lines, if I did the following
>>    dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/image
>>
>> would I be able to mount the image with something like?
>>    mount -o loop /path/to/image /mnt/mountpoint