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Re: [Bug-ddrescue] gnu ddrescue and bad sectors


From: Antonio Diaz Diaz
Subject: Re: [Bug-ddrescue] gnu ddrescue and bad sectors
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:17:44 +0100
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Hello Vincenzo,

address@hidden wrote:
MY QUESTION:I have formatted NTFS the new hard disk before launching
the cloning operation. Is this wrong ? Maybe is it better that the
new hard disk is not formatted before the cloning ? That is: cloning
with gnu_ddrescue the new hard disk inherits the partitioning of the
corrupted hard disk ?

If you are cloning the whole disk (not a partition), then yes, the new hard disk inherits the partitioning of the corrupted hard disk, and formatting the new disk before cloning is not needed.

See http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html#Examples

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Example 1: Rescue a whole disc with two ext2 partitions in /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. Note: you don't need to partition /dev/hdb beforehand, but if the partition table on /dev/hda is damaged, you'll need to recreate it somehow on /dev/hdb.

     ddrescue -f -n /dev/hda /dev/hdb mapfile
     ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/hda /dev/hdb mapfile
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Best regards,
Antonio.



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