Ghosting a hard drive with Linux Live CD

Feek · 21-12-2007, 20:36

I've got a secondary drive connected to my system and I want to ghost the main drive onto it. Norton Ghost fails about half way through and just won't have it so I'm looking at using dd

I understand from googling that the correct format should be...

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32768

Because I'm using sata drives.

However, an fdisk -l returns this:

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1       60802   488384512    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *           1       60802   488384512    7  HPFS/NTFS

So therefore should the command be as follows?

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=32768

I've tried that and nowt happens. Nothing. Nada.

Using Knoppix 5.1 Live CD.

I really want to get this drive cloned and it's not going well today.

21-12-2007, 20:36	#1
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Ghosting a hard drive with Linux Live CD I've got a secondary drive connected to my system and I want to ghost the main drive onto it. Norton Ghost fails about half way through and just won't have it so I'm looking at using dd I understand from googling that the correct format should be... dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32768 Because I'm using sata drives. However, an fdisk -l returns this: Code: Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 60802 488384512 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/hdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 60802 488384512 7 HPFS/NTFS So therefore should the command be as follows? dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=32768 I've tried that and nowt happens. Nothing. Nada. Using Knoppix 5.1 Live CD. I really want to get this drive cloned and it's not going well today. __________________