[ale] Failing external drive. Planning to DD the failing drive to new external drive. Help please

[Jim Kinney]

The dd will migrate the format as well as the data so no need. However, you will need to create partitions on the new location that are at least the same size as the originals.

If you want a file copy, use rsync onto a formatted partition.

On November 12, 2015 10:44:46 AM EST, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
>I have an external hard drive failing and hope to DD the drive to a new
>external hard drive.
>
>Should I reformat the new drive to ext3 (or ext4) before DDing?
>
>The failing drive has two 500 gig partitions (I believe ext3). Should I
>DD
>the partitions separately or DD the entire drive?
>
>After DDing I'll try to retrieve the data. Oh and it is all data, no
>OS.
>
>TIA,
>Preston
>
>
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