On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/22/2012 05:53 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> Is it possible to create an ISO of a drive in a USB enclosure? > > Thanks for your reply, Dale. I replied to it, but it didn't make it to > the list. Briefly, here's what I did: > > I put the likely failing drive into my USB enclosure and powered it up. > I ran mount to see what device Ubuntu decided it was, which was > /dev/sdb1. Then I did the following: > > sudo umount /dev/sdb1. > sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs 512 >cher.iso > > I swapped out the laptop sized drives and ran: > > sudo dd if=cher.iso bs=512 of=/dev/sdb1
This did not actually create an iso, unless your drive was already formatted as iso9660. The filename you used here could have been anything, as it was only making a disk image (dd to a file will always make a disk image of the on disk format). Works for your situation, it just isn't an actual iso. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
