Together with the many suggestions already made, you can also use the system internals tools (www.systeminternals.com) to mount NTFS volumes on Windows 98 and DOS. The free versions provide read-only access, which probably is what you want anyway. For mirroring a drive on an NT based system, just make sure it is not mounted. Then you can use the SCSI read commands directly to read sectors and mirror the drive. However, I would personally not want to boot NT with an NT volume in the system. You never know what windows writes to the filesystem or cleans from it on bootup. Especially with the on the newer NTFS that is a risk. A good source for a bootable CD linux distribution by the way is http://sourceforge.net/projects/rescuecd/. It's timo's rescue cd set, which is a debian install that you can easilly modify yourself when you need to. Pieter-Bas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Chan Lee" <susan.leeat_private> To: <forensicsat_private> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:31 PM Subject: How to DD NTFS? > Hi - Happy New Year to All. > > We all know how to dd a Ext2,3 Fat filesystems from Linux, but can > anyone advise how to dd a NTFS partition. My question is 2 fold: > > 1. From Linux, I am unable to mount the NTFS partitions, so how do I > know which /dev/hda* is NTFS etc.. > 2. If I make a guess and dd /dev/hda4 (which happens to NTFS), how to > mount later? As Linux does not recognise NTFS > 3. Any suggestions how to dd NTFS when the system does not have Linux > installed, nor do you want to install Linux (or any UNIX for that > matter) > > Thanks for any help > Susan Chan Lee > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. > For more information on this free incident handling, management > and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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