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I've tried clonezilla live cd, and I got an image but in a kind of folder. I would need an .img file or something because afterwards I will use some images together, but that is other story.

I also used dd if=/dev/sda of=~/disk1.img but it doesn't finish the image because the disk has 500GB and the image just about 100MB the first time and 2GB the second time, so I think that stops before finish for any reason I'm not aware of.

Do you know any way of doing an image of a disk?

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Try this command and options to avoid the process to stop when it find some bad sectors

dd conv=noerror,sync if=<whatever> of=<whatever>

dd OPTION

conv=CONVS convert the file as per the comma separated symbol list

Each CONV symbol may be:

noerror continue after read errors

sync pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs


More info Man dd command

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  • What is this? it is a part of a command, or part of dd?
    – Joe
    Feb 8, 2014 at 19:30
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    @Joe yes dd conv=noerror,sync if=<whatever> of=<whatever>
    – cybernard
    Feb 8, 2014 at 19:32

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