I have found that sometimes a disk does not show up in Ubuntu but works perfectly using SystemRescueCd which is a gentoo live cd. SystemRescueCd includes ddrescue.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Al Grant<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I thought when I discovered ddrescue that it would be somewhat of a pancea, > and image anything I threw at it - I had after all heard very good things > about it, I was in some respects glad to get away from windows. > > While I admit to still being in my early days of Ubuntu, I have discovered > that two disks I have tried to image lately do not show up under a fsdisk > -l, and accordingly I cant image in ddrescue. > > They do show sometimes in dmesg that they have been assigned sdc or > whatever, but the rule seems to be if it dont show up in fdisk -l then it > cant be imaged - or am I missing something? > > Anyone know any different? > > Cheers > > -AL > PS: On these defective disks I have had excellent success with getdataback > to get the files off, but of course getdata back doesnt do images. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/ddrescue-ubuntu-not-identifying-disks-tp24750661p24750661.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 > _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
