On 5/6/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Alphonse Ogulla: > > > > Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another > > (hdb) of the same size as follows: > > > > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 > > If it's exactly the same size, then yes. Keep in mind that you don't > copy files but the whole hard disk - including boot sectors and the > partition table. And, of course, if some of your data is already > corrupt, you are going to have a corrupt copy as well. > > BTW: if I were you, I'd take the time to plug one of the drives on the > secondary ide controller (if your machine has one). Copying between two > IDE devices on the same controller is awfully slow.
Don't you mean the same IDE channel? I don't understand why anyone would have two IDE controllers.