I'm trying to recover my Western Digtal 500GB hd (connected through IDE), I've already succesfully recoverd 80GB with copyr.dma (didn't have a bigger IDE drive laying around).

and want to do the rest of the drive with GNU ddrescue.

I use the Parted Magic live cd to do this.

The problem is that it can't find my HD, although it is listed when I look in the Hardware info app.

How can I mount it as /dev/hda or /dev/sda or whatever might work?

Thanks.

(Programs like Copyr.dma, Mediatools, hdclone all recognize the drive, but not parted magic linux.)

This question would get a better answer on a linux forum. This is a very simple task with unix and achievable with only a few terminal commands.

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Would you like to share it?

Just google mount and dd for linux and you will find tutorials.

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Just for the people who may encounter the same problems.
When I use the Ultimate Debian Live CD from multidistro.com, which has ddrescue preinstalled btw, I'm able to access my HD on /dev/hda and run ddrescue on it.