Excellent tip -I will try it. Thanks
Tom-331 wrote: > > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ddrescue-ubuntu-not-identifying-disks-tp24750661p24753641.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
