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Hallo,

On Tuesday 03 December 2013 14:16:42, Antonio Righettini wrote:
> I have already try, dd commnad finish without errors, but the disk doesn't
> contain data.
> 
> I used this command :
> 
> dd if=/.../hd.img of=/dev/sdc
> 
> where sdc is my device (hard disk)
> 
> I can not see any partition on hard disk.

When you write an image (containing an MBR) to a currently attached disk, you need to call partprobe afterwards to update the partition table.

Regards,
Alexander

BTW: no need for dd here. you can simply use cat /.../hd.img > /dev/sdc which is faster on some hardware


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