OK, so, if I understand correctly, what I have done is copying the contents of my Falcon's drive over my PC's partition.
I don't konw how far it has achieved, but I lost many files at random places. Some are not that important, but others are and I hope these weren't affected.
Next step will be to give the Falcon's drive another try, but on another place - a blank 64 GB stick, for instance -.
Regards,
J.-Luc
> Message du 20/07/15 20:20
> De : "Miro Kropáček" <miro.kropacek@gmail.com>
> A : "Jean-Luc CECCOLI" <jean-luc.ceccoli@wanadoo.fr>
> Copie à : "Thorsten Otto" <halgara@yahoo.de>, "mint@lists.fishpool.fi" <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
> Objet : Re: [MiNT] Need help to resurrect a Falcon + CT60
>
>Jean-Luc,
>you made several wrong assumptions:
- dd doesn't work on directories -- it works on handles, devices, files but not directories ... and it copies devices as whole (as an image), not file by file
- you can't access windows disk/directories like /dev/sda7/ ... first you have to mount the device/partition (/dev/sda7) somewhere so the kernel knows its filesystem and structure
- sudo really means "superuser operation", i.e. something you definitely shouldn't do as a normal (inexperienced) user ... it's not like windows uac which everyones just confirms without thinking
- you thought you'd be careful when typing the name of the disk with your precious data as you say
So you see, you tried something incredibly dangerous without proper advice/confirmation, that was really asking for trouble :-( Fingers crossed for your recovery attempt, though.
>
>On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI <jean-luc.ceccoli@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>> Yes, but $home refers to a place on the live usb dist, which I couldn't find afterwards. Or so I guess.
> Though I didn't write it in my previous post, I did try sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=/dev/sda7/Atari/recup.img conv=swab, but got an error message too.
> I think I didn't do it the right way... maybe ought I have replaced /dev/sda7 by something like /meida/jean-luc/ ?
> Testdisk has almost finished running, then I can see if I can retrieve my (precious) data or if I go and hang... then I try again with the Falcon disk.
>
> Thx,
>
> J.-Luc
>
>
> Message du 20/07/15 14:37
> > De : "Miro Kropáček" <miro.kropacek@gmail.com>
> > A : "Jean-Luc CECCOLI" <jean-luc.ceccoli@wanadoo.fr>
> > Copie à : "Thorsten Otto" <halgara@yahoo.de>, "mint@lists.fishpool.fi" <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
> > Objet : Re: [MiNT] Need help to resurrect a Falcon + CT60
> >
> >
> >On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI <jean-luc.ceccoli@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >I typed sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=/dev/sda7/Atari/ conv=swab, but only got a message telling no such file or directory.
> > You got it nearly right -- you should have typed something like "sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=$HOME/atari.img conv=swab", i.e. write it to a file. /dev/sda7/Atari doesn't make sense -- sda7 is a partition, you can create directories on a filesystem only.
> >Always know what are you doing with tools like dd else you may end up with huge data losses!
> >
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