On 07/04/03 09:27, Joel Hammer wrote:
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,
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