[Wlug] Using Knoppix to copy an NTFS drive

[Chuck Anderson]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:04:14AM -0500, Chuck Noyes wrote:
> I booted up the 5.0 KNOPPIX CD and tried dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb.
> There were no error messages and after about 30 minutes the 'dd'
> finished. However from KNOPPIX, I can't mount the new drive. the mount
> command (sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1) fails with:

Are you sure the copy completed all the way through the entire disk?  
dd will stop after errors unless you pass certain options:

dd conv=noerror,sync

Maybe you can try using "ddrescue" which will continue after errors 
and be smarter about copying blocks around errors:

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html