Hi Continuum,
Thanks for your reply
Ran the second comand that your provided as I was woried about capacity - and this is the out put below:
~ # dd /dev/disks/naa.6006016046c03c0027a38f5648ae56f2 bs=1M count=1537 | hexdump > /tmp/markison.1537.hex
BusyBox v1.9.1-VMware-visor-27142 (2013-04-10 21:52:47 PDT) multi-call binary
Usage: dd [if=FILE] [of=FILE] [ibs=N] [obs=N] [bs=N] [count=N] [skip=N]
[seek=N] [conv=notrunc|noerror|sync]
Copy a file with converting and formatting
Options:
if=FILE Read from FILE instead of stdin
of=FILE Write to FILE instead of stdout
bs=N Read and write N bytes at a time
ibs=N Read N bytes at a time
obs=N Write N bytes at a time
count=N Copy only N input blocks
skip=N Skip N input blocks
seek=N Skip N output blocks
conv=notrunc Don't truncate output file
conv=noerror Continue after read errors
conv=sync Pad blocks with zeros
Numbers may be suffixed by c (x1), w (x2), b (x512), kD (x1000), k (x1024),
MD (x1000000), M (x1048576), GD (x1000000000) or G (x1073741824)
I dont think the ESXi host is even seeing that drive anymore so therefore cannot excute this command?
Please if you can.
Thanks