I forgot to mention that I'd be moving the data between the two drives using ddrescue from a LiveUSB on the desktop.
Yomi On Sep 17, 2014 12:03 AM, "Yomi Ogunwumi" <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to copy data from a failing HDD. > I've got a desktop (which the drive is from) and a laptop (where I'm > trying to copy the data to.) > > I read the manual and noticed that rescuing and specifying a partition (or > a device in /dev) would overwrite the data there, which is not what I want. > > I want to know if there's a way I can still rescue the data, but just > point the .img to a directory on the laptop drive without overwriting the > data I already have on the laptop HDD. > > Yomi > _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
