Re: [Bug-ddrescue] gnu ddrescue and bad sectors

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Vincenzo,

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> MY QUESTION:I have formatted NTFS the new hard disk before launching
> the cloning operation. Is this wrong ? Maybe is it better that the
> new hard disk is not formatted before the cloning ? That is: cloning
> with gnu_ddrescue the new hard disk inherits the partitioning of the
> corrupted hard disk ?

If you are cloning the whole disk (not a partition), then yes, the new 
hard disk inherits the partitioning of the corrupted hard disk, and 
formatting the new disk before cloning is not needed.

See 
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html#Examples

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Example 1: Rescue a whole disc with two ext2 partitions in /dev/hda to 
/dev/hdb.
Note: you don't need to partition /dev/hdb beforehand, but if the 
partition table on /dev/hda is damaged, you'll need to recreate it 
somehow on /dev/hdb.

     ddrescue -f -n /dev/hda /dev/hdb mapfile
     ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/hda /dev/hdb mapfile
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Best regards,
Antonio.