My laptop stopped working suddenly. I would like to clone its hardrive (size 500 gb) before I send it for repairs. The laptop had a dual boot windows/ ubuntu setup with grub bootloader.
To clone the harddrive I wanted to use testdisk.
The problem is when I connect the hard drive to another laptop running Linux Mint it doesn't mount the hard drive.
Using Gparted shows an unallocated 500gb harddrive at /dev/sdb
but it cannot mount it.
Running sudo /fdisk -l
gives the following output.
Then I tried fsck /dev/sdb
and the output is as follows.
Finally I tried dmesg|tail
and I got the following output.
At this point I am out op options. I would appreciate any help/suggestions/comments. Please let me know if you need more clarifications.
Thank you
fsck /dev/sdb
attempts to repair the entire disk, butfsck
should be used on a filesystem, such as/dev/sdb1
. If you attempted the same withmount
, you'd run into a similar issue. Also, TestDisk is a data recovery tool, not a disk-cloning tool. For cloning your disk, you'd do better withdd
or Clonezilla.