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

[Richard C. Steffens]

On 06/25/2012 07:57 AM, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Richard C. Steffens
> <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 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
> This did not actually create an iso, unless your drive was already
> formatted as iso9660. The filename you used here could have been
> anything, as it was only making a disk image (dd to a file will always
> make a disk image of the on disk format). Works for your situation, it
> just isn't an actual iso.

Thanks for the clarification. Someday I may want to create a real iso 
and would be puzzled as to why it wasn't working.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens