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How do I RESTORE using dd_rescue?

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Hi,

I am back !! I used ddrescue to recover my HDD to a USB drive. I now want to restore the USB drive to a new HDD of same size as old one.

1. Using the ddrescue as restore tool, I set my USB drive as the image input, and the new drive as output.

2. But it tells me the "file" already exits when I select the new drive as output. For log file, I just created a new named log file.

3. What am I missing here? Do I need to use the old recovery LOG file I created, during backup?

Thanks.

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Unknown Person (premanu-32608) said : 		#1

OK. Update: I tried a second time, and now its gotten going. Fingers crossed.

The new drive is GUID partitioned (I am backing up Windows >> Windows, using ddrescue under OS X 10.10), and the partitioning (Diskutility/Tuxera ntfs) created an EFI partition automatically. After restore, will the Windows drive boot, or do I need to repair BCD?

Thanks.

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Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty (hamishmb) said : 		#2

Hi,

Glad to hear it went well 😊 Yeah, you need to tell it to overwrite, but don't use the old logfile, because it will mess the logfile up and nit copy everything!

Hopefully, it will just work, but you may need to repair BCD.

If the new drive is in the same physical port as the old one, it might just work 😊

Hamish

> On 8 Aug 2016, at 17:28, Unknown Person <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Question #328025 on DDRescue-GUI changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ddrescue-gui/+question/328025
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> Unknown Person gave more information on the question:
> OK. Update: I tried a second time, and now its gotten going. Fingers
> crossed.
>
> The new drive is GUID partitioned (I am backing up Windows >> Windows,
> using ddrescue under OS X 10.10), and the partitioning
> (Diskutility/Tuxera ntfs) created an EFI partition automatically. After
> restore, will the Windows drive boot, or do I need to repair BCD?
>
> Thanks.
>
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Unknown Person (premanu-32608) said : 		#3

Thanks for the moral support !!!!! :-)

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