LinuxQuestions.org - Can dd restore the entire hard disk including partition table and MBR?

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Originally Posted by depam

If you believe that dd uses a bit-by-bit copying then what difference does it make if MS Vista would change their filesystem? I don't know but this makes sense but you also told me that dd doesn't know what is being copied and works like a carbon paper?

I apologize for not stating my thoughts clearly. dd will have no problem copying any version of NTFS, since it is just a series of bits to it. The problems are with resizing, and maybe some of the other operations you can perform with Gparted and similar utilities, which do require an understanding of the FS. I don't remember the source of my info for the change in NTFS; I just stumbled across it somewhere in my reading sometime recently.