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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: electricferret on Mar 07, '05 01:03:42PM
It depends on what OS you're trying to read the disk in, really. (See your sig for details. :))

On OS X, you use what disktool reports, but put a "/dev/" in front of it. FWIW, I found that I had to read the whole disk to get it to work, not just a single partition. YMMV. The full disk is the "diskX" name, and the individual partitions on it are the "diskXsY" names. All together, this means on OS X you're going to get a device path like:

/dev/diskX
The "rXX" device name is for the author's BSD system. On a Linux system, you'll get names like "hdaX". (And Sun and HP and every other system have yet other naming conventions.)

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