On 11/14/2016 2:23 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote:/dev/sdc3 extendedThis one does not need to be copied because it is a container around the "logical" partitions sd5, sdc6, sdc7.
<Chuckle><Chuckle><GRIN>Back in the day I was involved in QA/QC and bailing out our field service people
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 ?
No way to know at this late date. I has not been in a computer for over a year, possibly 2.
Trouble shooting the drive has been on my "to do" list. Right now I could use another 300GB of free (as in beer) storage. I have no need of another Windows machine.
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