Cloning a disk pt2

[Ash Wyllie]

Jacob Mansfield opined



>the drive isn't mounted, depending on how the drive is connected you need a
>command similar to
>mount /dev/sdb1 /media/mydisk
>Jacob Mansfield
>Programmer

When it is mounted I get the "Unable to read the contents..." message


>On 14 October 2010 17:37, Ash Wyllie <ashw at lr.net> wrote:

>> Hi
>>
>> I've booted form my USB stick.
>>
>> I have the hardware, the new disk and the USB to SATA converter. I can see
>> the
>> drive and can modify it using GParted.
>>
>> The original straight from Dell drive is still in the laptop. GParted can
>> see
>> it.
>>
>> But I can't copy it. GParted information gives a warning
>>
>>            "Unable to find mount point"
>>
>>            "Unable to read the contents of this file system!"
>>
>> I have run backups, but I am not confident that I could restore what I have
>> from the backups. (one backup shows 4.21GB on the backup partition, the
>> other
>> 19.7GB.
>> One backup program gave a whole bunch of permission warnings...).
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>the drive isn't mounted, depending on how the drive is connected you need
>a command similar to<br>mount /dev/sdb1 /media/mydisk<br clear="all">Jacob
>Mansfield<br>Programmer<br><br>
><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 October 2010 17:37, Ash Wyllie <span
>dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashw at lr.net">ashw at lr.net</a>></span>
>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;
>border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

>Hi<br>
><br>
>I've booted form my USB stick.<br>
><br>
>I have the hardware, the new disk and the USB to SATA converter. I can see
>the<br> drive and can modify it using GParted.<br>
><br>
>The original straight from Dell drive is still in the laptop. GParted can
>see<br> it.<br>
><br>
>But I can't copy it. GParted information gives a warning<br>
><br>
>            "Unable to find mount point"<br>
><br>
>            "Unable to read the contents of this file system!"<br>
><br>
>I have run backups, but I am not confident that I could restore what I have
>from<br> the backups. (one backup shows 4.21GB on the backup partition, the
>other 19.7GB.<br> One backup program gave a whole bunch of permission
>warnings...).<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>                         -ash<br>
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