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[Anton Aylward <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. said the following on 09/20/2011 01:35 PM:
> On 2011-09-20 18:58, John Andersen wrote:
> > On 9/20/2011 6:36 AM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
>
> > Very odd that it would even try to read the boot sector.
> ...
> > Even known bad disks mount this way, and are sometime functional enough
> > to get some data off of even when they are unbootable).
>
> If boot sector is not readable, then it is not mountable. I think in this
> case it is the MBR, so no partition table.

Isn't there something you can do with 'dd' to overcome this?

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