[Wlug] Using Knoppix to copy an NTFS drive

[Chuck Noyes]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:13:17 -0500
Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> 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
> 
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I did get it working!!

The command I used was:

"sudo dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 conv=noerror,sync"

This worked perfectly. I now have a duplicate NTFS drive that I can
mount from KNOPPIX and Linux. I can also run Win2k from when I need
to (not very often). 

Thanks to Chuck A. and Jamie G. for their help.

-- 
-Chuck