Subject: Re: bit-for-bit disk copy using dd?
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher <stefan@net-tex.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/12/2007 11:06:40
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Also sprach Mike Cheponis (mac@Wireless.Com)
> Hmmmm, seek and ye shall find...
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> I was able to use a smaller disk as my destination, a 2.2 Gig 2.5"=20
> drive.... And this worked!
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> I don't understand why this didn't work for even slightly larger disks,=
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> but, anyway, the "dd" command, as below, does seem to make a bit-for-bit=
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> disk copy.

If you are copying Windows it might be a Windows problem. They
hardcode some HDD-data into the boot process, that breaks when the HDD
changes.=20

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