Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 16:59:11 UTC 2008
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.
>
I keep an adapter like this in my gadget box for the times I need to
hook an extra drive somewhere temporarily:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=CI-USB31&cpc=SCH
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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