Partition table and drive presence are 2 unrelated things. Partition table is data, and drive is a device. Sector 0 should be copiable without any MBR/GPT/etc data in it.
On 06/02/16 14:08, Cameron Andrews wrote: > That doesn't work though if Linux says "nope, there is no drive here" > when it cannot find the partition table.. ie: the /dev/sdX is not > present for the drive because no table was readable... > > On 06/02/16 03:31, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: >> Narcis Garcia wrote: >>> Number of disk sectors could be specified to ddrescue? >> >> Sure: >> ddrescue --size=123456s >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bug-ddrescue mailing list >> Bug-ddrescue@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > Bug-ddrescue@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list Bug-ddrescue@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
