data recovery - ADB pull error: remote object '/dev/block/mmcblk0p24' not a file or directory

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I'm trying to pull the partition /dev/block/mmcblk0 directly to my Windows PC, following the instructions from: How to pull mmcblk0 to a windows pc? while the phone is in TWRP, using the command:

adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 mmcblk0.img

But it keeps returning the error:

remote object '/dev/block/mmcblk0' not a file or directory

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Additional information: The reason that I want to do this is because I want to restore deleted files from a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (GT-I9195), so I need the entire partition.

Answer

adb pull is for files. /dev/block/mmcblk0 is a block device. user1133275's answer to that question doesn't work; try the other one, i.e. run adb shell and then:

$ su
# dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/something.bin

Then you can run adb pull /sdcard/something.bin.