Copying a Hard Disk Containing Windows With Fedora

[Alan Peery]

Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>   dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
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>   Does this work? Thanks!
>   
In general, this works.  I've had it fail one time with a laptop, but I 
concluded that this was because the laptop had a RAID hardware layer it 
was applying to the internal drive, and the USB cradle I'd hooked the 
new drive into wasn't doing the same thing.

The workaround would have been to put both drives in external USB 
cradles, but I didn't happen to have two cradles at the time to confirm 
that this did actually work.

Alan