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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: stephensan on May 10, '06 10:39:58PM

Melo (or anyone else),
You seem to have a relatively good grasp on dd_rescue... so I offer you my question.

I was able to use Darwin Ports to successfully install dd_rescue on 10.3. Everything looks great, but... when I run it with this command:

dd_rescue -v /dev/disk3s10 /dev/disk2s10/

I get this error:

dd_rescue: (fatal): open "/dev/disk2s10/" failed: Device busy

disk3s10 is my bad external drive (115 Gb)
disk2s10 is my good external drive (229 Gb)

disk2s10 is a clean partition, on a brand new drive (2 partitions total)

I feel like I've searched everywhere, yet I still can't figure out why I'd get this error.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,

Stephen




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Recover a dead hard drive using dd
Authored by: Superboy on Jul 24, '06 04:11:43PM

I think you need to put a filename at the end of the path:

dd_rescue -v /dev/disk3s10 /dev/disk2s10/mydisk.dmg

Otherwise it's trying to overwrite the whole of your disk3s10 disk...

Hope that helps!



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