HD to HD raw copy with dd?

mmx87 · 09-10-2004, 11:13 AM

Theoretically, couldn't you copy a HD (its partitions, data, everything) to another HD with dd? (and it would work?)

something like:

# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc (hdc == first HD on secondary IDE channel)

I tried it yesterday, but when I tried to boot from the disk, nothing happened. Maybe it was my old version of dd? (the version that comes with tomsrtbt?)

Thanks,

Brad

david_ross · 09-10-2004, 12:01 PM

That should work fine.

Were you able to mount the partitions on the disk you copied to?