> dd if=/dev/hdWHATEVER of=/dev/NEWDRIVE Would this take care of any security/anti-theft devices windows my have put into their OS?
Joel On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:45:05AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > dd if=/dev/hdWHATEVER of=/dev/NEWDRIVE > > of course if its working just fine with lindows, then i doubt there's > anything physically wrong with it, and its prolly just XP being stupid. > > On 07/04/03 08:37, Joel Hammer wrote: > > > It's an old maxtor drive. > > This drive mounts automatically when I start lindows, as it turns out. > > Everything seems to be fine. > > If I were to use dd, which options would write the whole drive contents to a new > > drive? > > Would windows boot from the new drive? > > > > Joel > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:19:58AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > >> dd is your best bet for cloning a drive exactly. tar would prolly work > >> in a pinch. Can you mount the NTFS patition under linux? Can you read > >> its contents? Are there any errors when you do that? In many cases, > >> you shouldn't need any fancy vendor utilities to deterine that the drive > >> is fscked. What kind of drive is this? > >> > >> On 07/03/03 21:01, Joel Hammer wrote: > >> > >> > I dual boot a lindows computer and XP Pro. > >> > > >> > Suddenly (in fact, after running the lindows 4.0 demo cdrom), XP pro loads > >> > and runs VERY slowly. The only other symptom is the fact the hard drive > >> > light, instead of flickering when it starts up, stays continuously red. > >> > > >> > XP has the HPFS/NTFS file system. > >> > > >> > My suspicion is that the hard drive, which is an old cast off, is > >> > the problem. Are there any tools in linux I could use to check out > >> > this drive? > >> > > >> > Are there any easy ways just to clone the "failing" hard drive. > >> > > >> > Thanks, > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 8:40am up 5 days, 17:05, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.12, 0.09 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
