> 1) When going disk to disk can you image both the whole drive and all its > partitions or can you only go disk to disk on a partition by partition > basis? >
>You can do whatever you want. On a practical level, it depends on what your problem is. Hi Andrew, Thanks for replying - your replies are always pretty good. The scenario I am thinking of is a drive with some bad sectors and one partition containing Windows XP (NTFS). By ddrescue disk-disk, then once on the new disk I can run a repair installation and hey presto I have a new disk with a now booting installation of XP. In most cases the partition table is not affected. Sound feeasble? I cant think why I would want to image a single partition, but If I wanted to image /dev/sda1 to a new blank disk, wouldnt I have to first create that partiton, with the correct size, file system type etc first? Cheers -Al PS: I had no problem using dd to write a ddresuce .bin to a new disk. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Disk-2-Disk-%28Part-Deux%29-tp26083713p26138354.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue
