Urgent: Copy hda to hdb with dd?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 15:40, alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> 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!
> 
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If you are doing this for money - you should either know for certain or
buy something that you can trust.

I would never hesitate to purchase Norton Ghost - it is awesome.

If you are doing Windows - you need to also use Sysprep.

Craig