Checking an HPFS/NTFS file system

[Joel Hammer]

It's an old maxtor drive.
This drive mounts automatically when I start lindows, as it turns out. 
Everything seems to be fine.
If I were to use dd, which options would write the whole drive contents to a new
drive?
Would windows boot from the new drive?

Joel



On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:19:58AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> dd is your best bet for cloning a drive exactly.  tar would prolly work 
> in a pinch.  Can you mount the NTFS patition under linux?  Can you read 
> its contents?  Are there any errors when you do that?  In many cases, 
> you shouldn't need any fancy vendor utilities to deterine that the drive 
> is fscked.  What kind of drive is this?
> 
> On 07/03/03 21:01, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> > I dual boot a lindows computer and XP Pro.
> > 
> > Suddenly (in fact, after running the lindows 4.0 demo cdrom), XP pro loads
> > and runs VERY slowly. The only other symptom is the fact the hard drive
> > light, instead of flickering when it starts up, stays continuously red.
> > 
> > XP has the HPFS/NTFS file system.
> > 
> > My suspicion is that the hard drive, which is an old cast off, is
> > the problem.  Are there any tools in linux  I could use to check out
> > this drive?
> > 
> > Are there any easy ways just to clone the "failing" hard drive.  
> > 
> > Thanks,
> 
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