[PLUG] Resolved: Creating an ISO of a drive in a USB enclosure

[Richard C. Steffens]

On 06/22/2012 05:53 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Is it possible to create an ISO of a drive in a USB enclosure?

Thanks for your reply, Dale. I replied to it, but it didn't make it to 
the list. Briefly, here's what I did:

I put the likely failing drive into my USB enclosure and powered it up.
I ran mount to see what device Ubuntu decided it was, which was 
/dev/sdb1. Then I did the following:

sudo umount /dev/sdb1.
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 bs 512 >cher.iso

I swapped out the laptop sized drives and ran:

sudo dd if=cher.iso bs=512 of=/dev/sdb1

It took a little while to move the 10 GB, but I let it run in the 
background while I worked on a couple of other things. Once it finished 
I put the newer drive in the old laptop and it worked as expected.

Not sure why the more verbose version of this didn't make it to the 
list, but I'm happy the project turned out to be straightforward.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens