The OS partition/s I wish to image are 200GB. My old computer with a full ATX intel socket 1156 motherboard. A second hand, but blank, 500gb hard drive, a 2TB portable drive with 80% free capacity, A working 170GB hard drive that has all my documents (last backup 6 months ago to the portable drive). A newish, but second hand, Dell laptop that does NOT have a DVD/CD drive. the correct process for imaging, then hopefully restoring and mounting (if this is the correct terminology) the OS and programs to a working hard drive. If possible a graphical interface for imaging the drives included on that flash drive.ģ. a bootable flash drive for imaging failed hard drivesĢ. Also if I can make ddrescue, or the gui version, persistent on the flash drive (which would be useful).ġ. What I have not found is an indication that the GUI version will work from a live flash drive. Creating an ISO first is one little piece of advice I have read for recovery from a failed drive. I am not sure if I can create an image of a partition and save it to a portable hard drive, then restore this image to a working hard drive. Plus I have used terminal using commands found on the internet. I have tried downloading the program and installing it that way. It appears I can install gddrescue okay, but have not yet managed to get the GUI version working. At best I can muddle my way through.Īs I type this I am working from Ubuntu 16.04 off a flash drive. What I am is a struggling inventor that works better with my hands and thinks in 3D, so a graphical interface would be desireable for me to use. The command line is daunting for me, although with the correct instructions I can copy and paste as good as the next person :-=P I am still familiarising myself with Ubuntu again, which makes this process challenging. ( another also has a Ubuntu 9.04, which I stopped using after the hard drive failure). Most important is a Windows XP OS on a partition. Plus an old pata drive that has photographs on it. This includes 3 sata drives, two of which had the operating systems on them, and the third was document storage. I am trying to create images from a number of failed hard drives in the hope I can recover the programs and data.
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