[wellylug] Help needed.

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Fri Mar 28 23:24:24 NZDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 23:01 +1300, David Chord wrote:
> > I would recommend you borrow or buy another disk of similar size and
> > 'dd' all the information from your broken system over to the backup,
> > BEFORE you attempt to repair anything. Seriously.
> 
> Agreed. I just need to find a spare 80g disk now..  Maybe I need to buy one.
> 
> How exactly does it have to match? I could quickly get my hands on a 120G 
> drive, but that's 40G larger.. 

Any disk will do, as long as it is the same size or larger.


> I'm kinda nervous about using the dd command as well.. Why do you think I 
> needed to shell out for expensive recovery software in the first place? :)

Just check your input - dd will only ever do what you tell it to, and is
very simple.

dd if=INPUTDEVICE of=OUTPUTDEVICE

Pretty simple. :-)

-- 
Jethro Carr

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