Re: ddrescue and windowsxp
On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 03:43 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2013 1:05 AM, "steef" <debian.linux@home.nl> wrote:
> >
> > hi folks,
> >
> > my eldest daughter has an old laptop with windowsxp loaded on it. the
> machine crashed yesterday.
> >
> > my question: can i use debian and the ddrescue-procedure to save the data
> of this laptop like i did about 7 years ago with a crashed slackware_hd??
> >
> > google confused me.
> >
> > thank you,
> >
> > steef
> >
> >
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> What I used to backup data from crashed windows xp drive was Knoppix 7.2
> live CD. Backed up to flash drive then with gparted deleted partition and
> then was able to run Winxp disk. This was on a friends pc.
>
> I run dual boot Windows 7 Pro/Xubuntu 12.04 on my main tower (Dell GX280,
> 3gb memory)
>
> Robert
I've never used such "ddrescue-procedure", but with any live distro and
sufficient hard disk space you can use:
# dd if=/dev/sdX of=/media/yourmountpoint/backupfilename
to extract and image of that disk to be worked on elsewhere.
If you need to check which device is the primary disk use:
# fdisk -l
and look for previously known disk sizes.
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André N. Batista
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