[Bug-ddrescue] Disc or partition?

[David P James]

I've got a 40 GB hard disk that has failed with two FAT32 partitions on 
it (of equal size I believe). I would like to attempt to recover the 
data on it (Windows and user files) and move it over to a new 80GB 
replacement disk. Most of the user data is on the 'D:' drive but of 
course all the OS and configuration files and drivers and whatnot is on 
the 'C:' drive.

I inserted the disk into a linux box (as hdb) along with the new disk 
(as hdc). The new disk is at this point still unpartionned. Fdisk 
cannot read the partition table of the failed disk.

To use ddrescue, should I attempt to copy the contents of the entire 
disk over to the new, unpartionned disk:

ddrescue [options] /dev/hdb /dev/hdc rescue.log

or should the new disk be partionned first and the drives of the failed 
disk copied over one by one?:

ddrescue [options] /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 rescue_c.log
ddrescue [options] /dev/hdb5 /dev/hdc5 rescue_d.log

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Thank you

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David P James
Calgary, Alberta
http://david.jamesnet.ca
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