Hi, and again a miscalculation by differing block sizes. The adventurous proposal would be useless because working somewhere in the still undamaged part of the image file. skip= and seek= must be the numbers for blocks of 512 bytes rather than of 64 KiB. So this proposal should have been dd if=/dev/sdd bs=512 skip=16500703 count=66 \ of=rock-img-shrunk.img seek=16500703 Have a nice day :) Thomas