[nmglug] Re: nmglug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 1

[Michael St.John]

Hi,
i would use the command dd

dd /dev/(sourcedrive) /dev/(destinationdrive)

exampl: dd /dev/hda /dev/hdc

i hope i could help


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>Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:23:53 -0600 (MDT)
>From: "William D. Nystrom" <wdn at lanl.gov>
>Subject: [nmglug] Hard Drive Cloning with Free Software
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>Does anyone know of a way to do a bit by bit copy of a hard drive in a
>laptop to a USB hard drive connected to the laptop using free software?
>I believe this is called hard drive cloning.  I have a hard drive with
>Windows XP Home on it and another that has both Windows XP Home and Red
>Hat Fedora Core 3 partitions.  I'm interested in doing some significant
>modifications to both of these hard drives and wanted to be able to back
>them up to a USB hard drive before making the modifications.  If there
>was a way to do this with some sort of linux boot or rescue CD then that
>would be really great.
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>Thanks,
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