Dear Slug,
I'm not sure why using dd to store images of my windows machines hd did
not work. I would have thought dd copied everything byte for byte, so
no problem if the hd I restored to was the same one I backed up from.
Heres what I did:
Took the hd from my windows pc, and connected it to the secondary
ide cable on my linux pc and booted up. Then I did:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/backups/pc1.bin
This took a while, and at the end I was informed that about 1 million
blocks had been copied and I had the new file pc1.bin of size about
500MB - the same size as the windows hard disk.
About a week later, I decided to try to recreate a fresh installation of
windows by doing a
dd if=/backups/pc1.bin of=/dev/hdc
Took a while, but went smoothly. But when I tried to boot the windows
machine with this disk it would not boot. Booting from a windows
startup floppy and running fdisk showed no partitions defined.
Anyone know why this dd backup method did not work?
TIA
Josh
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