On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Susan Chan Lee wrote: > 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: > ...... > 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) It that type of event I use one of a couple of methods: Removable drive bays, they are very handy, however when on IDE channels do require a reboot. OR, USB/Firewire drive bay support, this (under linux atleast) recognises as SCSI and when you have the drive powered on and in, say, an external firewire disk caddy, it will be visible in /proc/scsi/scsi. then you can treat the disk as a local disk, but without installing anything onto it. (and ofcourse mount it ro). The firewire method works perfectly for me on a slackware installation, with recompied kernel (enabling "prompt for development drivers" so you can use firewire) and with ntfs etc enabled for fs-support. There is, i believe from previous postings, a windows version of dd, but how effective it is I have no idea. Anyone? Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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