Copying A Disk

[Pete Holsberg]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:08:53 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:52:12PM -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>> I have a disk that is not accessible in Windows and it was suggested
>> that I could copy it in its entirety using
>> 
>> "dd noerror if=/dev/hdX  of=~/filename"  where hdX is the drive and
>> filename is the name for the copy.
> 
> I believe that should be "dd conv=noerror", note the 'conv=' bit in
> front of 'noerror'.  Also, in modern systems it's often /dev/sdX instead
> of /dev/hdX.
> 
>> How do I know what X is?
> 
> Use lshal (or the graphical device manager) and search for your disk.
> For example, a 120 GB Hitachi disk is shown on my laptop as
> 
>   udi =
>   '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/
storage_serial_1ATA_HITACHI_HTS541612J9SA00_SB2D51EVG60DLE'
>     block.device = '/dev/sda'  (string)
>     ...
>     info.product = 'HITACHI HTS54161'  (string) ...
>     storage.size = 120034123776  (0x1bf2976000)  (uint64) ...
> 
> The manufacturer, model, serial number and size help you identify the
> disk, and block.device shows you how to access it.

Where would a USB drive appear?