On 10/10/07, televiseus <> wrote: > > Hello, > > I had my windows C drive stop booting and have been trying to run ddrescue > on it to get as much off it as possible. Despite being a total noob to linux > and thanks to the helpful posts on this mailing list and some research I've > been able to do these things so far: > > I found ddrescue 1.5 and some other useful on a Parted Magic Live CD. > > I booted with the live cd and partitioned the 300gb usb hdrive i want the > ddrescue outfile to go to. It now has 3 ntfs partitions (sda1 is the > original resized partition that was on the external and sda2 and sda3 are > ntfs partitions that are 74.32gb each to match the size of the partition I > want ddrescue to copy off my bad laptop drive), sda4 is an ext3 12gb > partition I made for the ddrescue logfile and scratchfiles, etc. > > The problem comes when I try to start ddrescue from the live cd terminal to > have it copy my bad hd partition hda1 which is on the laptop hd installed in > the ide slot. I want it to send that copy to the empty ntfs partition of > matching size I created on the external drive (sda2 or sda3) and I want the > logfile to go to the new ext3 partition (sda4). > > Here is the command I have been trying: > > # ddrescue -n /dev/hda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda4/baddisk.log > > but everytime I've tried I get an error that says: ddrescue: cannot open > output file: not a directory > > I've also tried /dev/sda3, /dev/sda2/test (after creating a folder called > 'test'), /dev/sda2/test/baddisk.img, but I continue to get the same error. > > I'd be willing to bet I'm overlooking something obvious, but I'm stumped. > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Aaron Hartwell
Try mounting /dev/sda4 and putting the logfile there. like mount -t ext3 /dev/sda4 /somedirectory then do ddrescue -n /dev/hda1 /dev/sda2 /somedirectory/baddisk.log where /somedirectory is an empty directory that you create or an unused entry in /mnt or /media -Jason _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
