Restoring hard drive image

Jon123456 · 29 Nov 2011 at 16:13

I've had a few nightmare problems recenlty, with a hard drive with bad sectors. So, I used Parted Magic to help me out. I used ddrescue on there to create an image on my E: drive. Now I have bought a 1TB Samsung drive, which I want to put the image on and then try to run chkdsk /f.

Some questions:

1. Do I need to format my Samsung drive first or do they come preformated? My failing hard drive had a ntfs type structure.

2. How do I get my backup.img image from my E: drive onto the new Samsung drive, so that I can run chdsk on it? What I mean is that I want the backup.img file extracted so it is effectively a clone of my failing drive but now on my mechanically good Samsung drive.

Thanks,

Jon

Clav · 29 Nov 2011 at 16:21

I'm not familiar with Parted Magic, but there should be some sort of restore option that will write the img onto the new drive.

Jon123456 · 29 Nov 2011 at 16:26

Parted Magic is a linux setup that has some tools. I did a command line ddrescue command to take the image. Its not so obvious what to do next!

kirbz · 29 Nov 2011 at 16:52

Depends, if you took an image of the hd then you can just restore, if you took one of the partition then you would need to format.

Jon123456 · 29 Nov 2011 at 16:54

In Parted Magic, I can't see my new Samsung drive. Also, I don't know how to restore.

deadite66 · 29 Nov 2011 at 17:07

for dd it should be something like
dd if=/mount/backup/backup.img of=/dev/sda1

if = in file, of = out file
paths and devices need to be changed for your situation.