On 11/14/2016 2:23 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
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.
<Chuckle><Chuckle><GRIN>
Back in the day I was involved in QA/QC and bailing out our field
service people
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 ?
No way to know at this late date. I has not been in a computer
for over a year, possibly 2.
Trouble shooting the drive has been on my "to do" list. Right now
I could use another 300GB of free (as in beer) storage. I have no
need of another Windows machine.
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
