clone a hard drive?

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jelikinto83
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clone a hard drive?

Post by jelikinto83 »

Can any of the image products clone a hard drive that is not partitioned normally not mbr or gpt?
A 512 byte sector by sector copy of the entire hard drive itself would be required.
Something like /copy /sd:1 /td:2 ? (without any partition numbers?)
TeraByte Support(PP)
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Re: clone a hard drive?

Post by TeraByte Support(PP) »

You would use the "Copy Unused Sectors" option (or /raw from the command line), which forces a raw sector by sector copy.

For example, with IFW: /copy /sd:w1 /td:w2 /raw
ViggenAJ37
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Re: clone a hard drive?

Post by ViggenAJ37 »

Thanks, I've applied it and it works! I was trying to copy my professional hard drive to bring it to work after a long sequence of working from home, it'll be easier and quicker than uploading every single useful file, especially since I've gathered -among other things- a 40 gb folder containing three months of research of the effect on the country's economy of the Montenegro citizenship program https://tranio.com/montenegro/passport/ . And I'm planning to clone it on several of the company's PCs and bring it back home so that there are backups should a problem happen.
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