Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[John Summerfield]

Alan Peery wrote:
> Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>>   dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
>>
>>
>>   Does this work? Thanks!
>>   
> In general, this works.  I've had it fail one time with a laptop, but I 
> concluded that this was because the laptop had a RAID hardware layer it 
> was applying to the internal drive, and the USB cradle I'd hooked the 
> new drive into wasn't doing the same thing.
> 
> The workaround would have been to put both drives in external USB 
> cradles, but I didn't happen to have two cradles at the time to confirm 
> that this did actually work.

Or, having done the copy, replace the internal drive then dd back.

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