I am trying to copy over data using the Ubuntu-Rescue Remix bootable cd but this cd does not see my hard drive! What can I do so that the URR is able to see my hard drive and I can save my data?
I tried the lshw
Linux command and this is the one not showing my drive.
EDIT...... One hard drive completely died (I believe it lost the mbr), I tried using testdisk to recover and it could not recover. So I have the bad drive & a "new" drive connected via USB to a computer booting into URR to attempt to copy the image over to the "new" drive. But URR is not showing the "new" drive...
EDIT # 2
'sudo fdisk -l'
will show my drive as dev/sdb
and the partition is listed as /dev/sdb1
EDIT # 3
Using sudo ddrescue image /dev/sdb
gives me an error of:
Output file exists and is not a regular file. Use --force if you really want to overwrite it, but be aware that all existing data in output file will be lost.
****Not sure if it makes a difference I am copying from a Linux format to a NTFS format..could that be what throws the error? If so, how do I format the final drive to a format that can be seen?
sudo fdisk -l
. does it show the drive? Did you format the drive? if not use gparted to put a partition and filesystem on it. then check again to see if urr can detect and mount the filesystem.