Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > /dev/sdc3 extended
This one does not need to be copied because it is a container around the "logical" partitions sd5, sdc6, sdc7. > ddrescue has been running for 1/2 and > reports rescuing ~47GB without any _reported_ errors. That's unexpected as > the partition was the Windows C: drive and WinXP refused to boot. Do you get any specific messages from the boot refusal ? Like bad disk or so ? If the computer has EFI boot firmware, if it is in non-legacy mode, and if dev/sdc2 is reported by e.g. /sbin/fdisk -l as type "EFI (FAT-12/16/32)", then booting starts there. If the computer has old BIOS or EFI in legacy mode, then booting starts at block 0 of the base device /dev/sdc. Normally the first partition starts not there but rather 31 to 2048 blocks later. Have a nice day :) Thomas
