Urgent: Copy hda to hdb with dd?

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Author: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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Subject: Urgent: Copy hda to hdb with dd?
Thanks, Richard. I let it go for 5 hours and stopped it. After stopping it, the original drive was messed up!

Why? Possibilities:
-I was making a mirror image of a brand new Windows 2000 install with the NTFS file system.
-I did not mount the file systems (I did not think I needed to).
-They are DMA-100 IDE drives on a 1.6GHZ computer. Maybe LNX-BBC cannot handle this hardware.

Anyway, I am attempted to re-build from square one my original master drive. Not a successful experiment and I don't have time to try again. Maybe another day.

Alan

PS I am helping setup some Windows 2000 workstations for a friend of mine. It pays so I can use Windows when there is money involved!

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 14:10:44 -0700 Richard Daggett <> wrote:

I have done this with 9GB SCSI drives with no issues, for 9GB drives it takes about 30-45Min.

Richard