[NBLUG/talk] floppy recovery

steven smith sjs at sonic.net
Fri May 23 16:08:04 PDT 2008


E Frank Ball III wrote:
> 
> Try using "dd" to create an image of the disk, then mount that with the
> loopback or make a new floppy from it.  The man page for dd talks about
> a "noerror" flag that might be useful.
> 

I thought you had to mount the disk to use dd on it??  Is 
this not so?

Isn't the command something like
     dd if=/dev/sd... of=my_part_copy bs=512
or something like that?

Steve S.




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