> I am not a Windows "Guy" I live my life 90% administering SCO and LINUX <snip> > I have to ask the "stupid" question what is dd?
Uhhh... I'm surprised by that question. "man dd" should answer that one. Dd is a simple block level io tool, and not ideal for your purposes. It eliminates any intelligence from failing you (that is, tools which read ntfs and stuff and neglect some piddly little detail that they didn't think windows would care about.) Dd allows you to copy all bytes of your hard drive or partition, and restore them exactly the same. So it's impossible for anything to go wrong as long as you have the same hardware. The downside is, it does every byte including unused space. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
