On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, kfir lavi wrote:

> hi,
> i have 2 computers with the same hard disks.
> the 2 have ntfs on them.
> i wont to put them together in the same computer and copy one to the
> other. can i do it with tomsrtbt linux on floppy, and use the dd
> command.
> if it will work - will you be kind to suggest the command param - like
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb ....

We may, assuming we can know where those disks exactly are?

Are those disks IDE or SCSI?

Assuming IDE:

/dev/hda: primary master
/dev/hdb: primary slave
/dev/hdc: scondary master
/dev/hdd: secondary slave

Those are phisycal drives, not partitions. Recall that C:, D: etc. are
partitions that reside on such disks, and that more than one partition can
reside on a disk. The command-line above clones a whole disk.

It will work if the target disk will be placed in the same place as the
original disk later (e.g: the original was primary master, and the clone
will later become primary master. Otherwise some changes may be required
if you want to boot from the target disk.


-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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