Cloning a hard drive with ddrescue

I asked this in IRC but I can't keep tabs on an IRC chat on my phone while driving for my job!

I'm trying to use ddrescue to clone my failing hard drive (/dev/sda) to a new one I just bought (/dev/sdb). This is the ddrescue command I tried to use:

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1. ddrescue -r3 -n -f -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb recovery.log

And it spat out:

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2. ddrescue: Can't open input file: Permission denied

I dicked around some more and tried to mount my new hdd with:

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2. sudo mount -o /dev/sdb /media/3TB

and got:

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2. mount: /dev/sdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
3. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
4.             missing codepage or helper program, or other error

I'm not sure why this new hard drive is write-protected. There aren't any jumpers on it or anything. I'm pretty sure I just screwed up somewhere though.

 

Yea I did. And I made another super stupid mistake :v

The HDD is probably still completely shot though. A 999gb errsize on a 1tb HDD isn't a good thing! Gerbil's got me trying something else later so I don't think this needs to be here anymore. Thanks.