Copying A Disk

Frans ketelaars at wanadoo.nl
Sun Jul 13 00:24:54 UTC 2008


On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:31:22 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:

> Chris Mohler has written on 7/12/2008 1:34 PM:
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>   
>>>    What you do is this:
>>>
>>> $ sudo fdisk /dev/sda and if that fails try sdb and so forth. I would
>>> expect it to be sda because windows likes to be in the first partition
>>> :-)
>>>     
>>>     
>> Wrong.  /dev/sda ~= /DEVices/ScsiDiskA.  Meaning "sda" denotes the
>> first drive, "sdb" is the second drive, and so on.  Whether or not
>> windows prefers to be installed in the first partition of a drive has
>> no relevance here - this is not a dual-boot setup, but a full XP MCE
>> install that has gone bad - likely due to hardware failure
>>   
>>   
> 
> Yes, hardware failure. I said that, didn't I?
> 
> So if sudo fdisk /dev/sda is wrong, what is right?
> 
> Thanks.

Just a thought: maybe there is a (hardware) problem with the (S)ATA to 
usb cable you mentioned: http://www.xpcgear.com/usbdsc5.html .

>From an earlier post:

>My Vista machine didn't like it at all, and knocked out the USB
>controller. Rebooting brought it back.

Maybe you should try to connect the disk directly to a (S)ATA controller.

Good luck!

    -Frans





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