Checking an HPFS/NTFS file system

[Joel Hammer]

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

Would this take care of any security/anti-theft devices windows my have put
into their OS?

Joel

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:45:05AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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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