[Wlug] Using Knoppix to copy an NTFS drive

[Brett Russ]

On 11/22/06, Chuck Noyes <vze284qe at verizon.net> wrote:
> I booted up the 5.0 KNOPPIX CD and tried dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb.
> There were no error messages and after about 30 minutes the 'dd'

Sounds like a 30-40GB drive?

> finished. However from KNOPPIX, I can't mount the new drive. the mount
> command (sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1) fails with:
>
> "Couldn't mount device '/dev/hdb1'. input/output error - mount failed".

Some things to do:
-Check the kernel log (dmesg will dump it) for errors on hdb.
-Check the health of hdb (smartctl -a /dev/hdb)

BR