[Wlug] Using Knoppix to copy an NTFS drive

[Chuck Noyes]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:16:42 -0500
"Brett Russ" <bruss at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:

> 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?

It's an 80 GB 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.

dmesg looks clean.

> -Check the health of hdb (smartctl -a /dev/hdb)

smartctl reports no problems or errors.

If I run smartctl -t short /dev/hdb followed by
smartctl -l selftest /dev/hdb, there are no errors.  

> 
> BR
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