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By: mz2ptc0
Since this task cannot be accomplished practically by using DD.exe directly
I suggest you try using drive imaging software, specifically Clonezilla:
http://clonezilla.org/
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By: raysatiro
You have an image file of your linux drive on your windows box? If I was doing
testing like that I would boot the image in a virtual machine. I like vmware
workstation