OT: (a bit) copying WINDOZE (or any other disks)

Laurence Orchard laurence at orchards.org.uk
Thu Dec 23 18:28:26 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 09:45 -0800, clayj at nwlink.com wrote:
> A bit off topic; but, I've got a Windoze box with a failing hard drive;
> and an FC3 box (which is working a whole lot better).
> 
> What's the recommended process to create an exact duplicate (boot sector
> and all) of a hard drive?  Is it really as simple as:
>     cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdb
> 
> ???   Does the new drive need to be partitioned first? Or is there some
> other way to clone drives?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Clay Jackson
> clayj at nwlink.com


Try not to hi-jack threads please it's confusing!!

In answer to the question, I would partition the new drive, 
then use

dd if=/dev/<old-drive> of=/dev/<new-drive>

checkout the dd man page for additional parameters if need be.

Laurence





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