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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

yOn Sun, 19 Nov 2006, John Beck wrote:

> I'd use dd (disk dump) to clone HD to HD.
>
> dd if=/dev/hda  of=/dev/hdb

Can we also dd if/dev/hda1 of/dev/hdb1?
Can we copy between drives or partitions of different sizes with dd, like 
we can with cp -a *?  We have some 340 and some 500MB.



> sindi keesan wrote:
> > We were unable to copy Win98 between hard drives using DOS and boot the
> > result.  Might be something about the hidden files.
> >
> > Would cp -a /hd/* .  (after mounting both drives and cd'ing to target)
> > clone a Win98 hard drive after formatting to FAT32?