making a exact copy of a HD

[Advance Warning]

Good luck at trying to do that I don't think it is possible

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale" <dale_n_ks at yahoo.com>
To: "kclug" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: making a exact copy of a HD

> Okay. what I am after is an EXACT copy of a HD.
> ghost makes a copy but it isn't exact apperantly cause
> it didnt' copy over some of the information on the
> original drive.. such as a software ID for the system.
> 
> anyway, what I wanted to do is get a perfect dup of
> the HD which only has 1 partition. to another hd 
> I use a HD with no partitions defined. for the
> destination.  
> 
> ghost as I said will copy the drive to the point that
> I can run it.. but it dont' duplicate the software ID.
> And since ghost is a PCDOS program I know that there
> has to be something really simular in the lin
> community.  I usually use dd to dump a image to a
> disk. But that didnt' give me the results I wanted
> either.
> 
> 
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