Checking an HPFS/NTFS file system

[Net Llama!]

dd if=/dev/hdWHATEVER of=/dev/NEWDRIVE

of course if its working just fine with lindows, then i doubt there's 
anything physically wrong with it, and its prolly just XP being stupid.

On 07/04/03 08:37, Joel Hammer wrote:

> 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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