Thank you sir for the helpful advice. As we speak it is trying to recover the data! Much thanks again!
andrew zajac-2 wrote: > > That's because "/media/diskname" is a mountpoint, not a device. > > If sdb is the device that is mounted there, you would want to first > unmount it and then run ddrescue like this: > > sudo ddrescue /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1 log > > Where sda1 is the target hard disk partition that you want to *overwrite*. > > If you only want to create an image as a file on sda1, then mount it, > change directory to it and run > > sudo ddrescue /dev/sdb1 image log > > Where "image" is the file and log is another file which is the recovery > log. You need to recovery log to be able to resume the process, if you > interrupt it. > > Good Luck! > > Andrew Zajac > > > --- On Thu, 10/9/08, psychosocial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: psychosocial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Telling me my drive is a directory and won't copy? > To: [email protected] > Received: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 9:03 PM > > Hey all, after searching around on various search engines and looking on > here > I thought I'd ask if you could help me. > > I am currently trying to recover data from a USB HDD hooked up to Hardy > Heron (Ubuntu) using ddrescue. My problem is that when I type the command > (sudo ddrescue /media/diskname /dev/sda1), ddrescue starts but everything > it > tries to copy shows at the bottom "/media/diskname is a directory!" > > I read the man page but nothing jumped out to me at what I was wrong! If > someone could give me pointers on the weird message it would be a great > help. > > Thanks > > Psychosocial > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Telling-me-my-drive-is-a-directory-and-won%27t-copy--tp19910201p19910201.html > Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your > favourite sites. Download it now at > http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Telling-me-my-drive-is-a-directory-and-won%27t-copy--tp19910201p19917978.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
