making a exact copy of a HD

Jason Clinton clintonj at umkc.edu
Fri Dec 6 19:05:48 CST 2002


JEFF MCCRIGHT wrote:
> Doesn't dd make backup images?  Also, Drive Image will work and so 
> will Symantec Ghost. Unfortunately, both of the later require MS-DOS 
> or PC-DOS. dd should be part of a standard Linux Install. 
> 
> Just a suggestion and no Flames please!
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jeff McCright

There's an open source implemenation of DOS called FreeDOS at freedos.org I 
think. There are floppy images floating around out there which are what I use to 
upgrade my BIOS. This make also work for Symantec's thing. ... Partition Magic 
comes with some of these tools, too, doesn't it?




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