Re: Progress report Re: Invoking ddrescue

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Richard Owlett wrote:
>          /dev/sdc3 extended

This one does not need to be copied because it is a container around
the "logical" partitions sd5, sdc6, sdc7.


> ddrescue has been running for 1/2 and
> reports rescuing ~47GB without any _reported_ errors. That's unexpected as
> the partition was the Windows C: drive and WinXP refused to boot.

Do you get any specific messages from the boot refusal ?
Like bad disk or so ?

If the computer has EFI boot firmware, if it is in non-legacy mode, and if
dev/sdc2 is reported by e.g. /sbin/fdisk -l as type "EFI (FAT-12/16/32)",
then booting starts there.

If the computer has old BIOS or EFI in legacy mode, then booting starts
at block 0 of the base device /dev/sdc. Normally the first partition starts
not there but rather 31 to 2048 blocks later.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas