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I tried to recover an HDD to a mounted device:

safecopy --stage1 /dev/sdb3 /media/Volume/abc

and it says Error opening destination: /media/Volume/abc is a directory.

If I run safecopy with

safecopy --stage1 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc1

it starts working. But after finishing this process, I can't open the destination.

It should simply copy all files from the bad HDD to the new HDD (not cloning, just copy the data), so what is the problem?

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Steve
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You first create an image with:

safecopy --stage1 /dev/sdb3 output.img

and so a file called output.img will be created as an intermediate step. Then

dd if=output.img of=/media/Volume/abc

for copying the image to partition of the new HDD.

The destination in your safecopy command has to be a file!

Chrispie
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You are providing the mountpoint directory /media/Volume/abc when a file or device must be provided. Given that you are providing a mountpoint, you seem to want to provide a device. To find out the device that's mounted to a mountpoint, mount or findmnt can be used.

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