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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: dilbert4life on Sep 09, '09 07:06:46AM

df -k will help and show you what you need, but only if the disk is actually mounted.

I prefer to use disktool, because it shows all disks that are attached to the computer, even if the partition is not mounted.

When I use dd, I connect and then unmount the disk, leaving it connected, just to ensure that the only I/O activity is the dd tool. Using
df -k, I was not able to see /dev/disk6s1, but using disktool -l, it showed just fine.



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