On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:13:17 -0500 Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:04:14AM -0500, Chuck Noyes wrote:
I booted up the 5.0 KNOPPIX CD and tried dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb. There were no error messages and after about 30 minutes the 'dd' finished. However from KNOPPIX, I can't mount the new drive. the mount command (sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1) fails with:
Are you sure the copy completed all the way through the entire disk? dd will stop after errors unless you pass certain options:
dd conv=noerror,sync
Maybe you can try using "ddrescue" which will continue after errors and be smarter about copying blocks around errors:
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
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I did get it working!! The command I used was: "sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 conv=noerror,sync" This worked perfectly. I now have a duplicate NTFS drive that I can mount from KNOPPIX and Linux. I can also run Win2k from when I need to (not very often). Thanks to Chuck A. and Jamie G. for their help. -- -Chuck