Cloning a Hard Drive
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 7:45 am
Hi,
I would like to follow up with TeraByte Support about their response to the following question:
viewtopic.php?p=19158&hilit=raw#p19158
In this question a user asks whether they can clone a hard drive without any specific partition scheme. And the response of the TeraByte support team is yes, it is possible, which is great.
Now, supposing I follow TeraByte support's instructions as listed in that post. Namely, suppose I run the following commands
IFW: /copy /sd:w1 /td:w2 /raw
to clone the hard drive. This command will produce some output file as a result. Call it output.TBI
Now, what I'd like to ask is, will the file output.TBI contain additional metadata generated by the Terabyte Image for Windows program, or will the file output.TBI contain only the raw bytes of the cloned hard drive, similar to the way that the unix dd if=<TARGET_DISK> of=<EXTERNAL_DISK>/MyImage.img command works?
Thank you and I look forward to your response,
James Pedersen
I would like to follow up with TeraByte Support about their response to the following question:
viewtopic.php?p=19158&hilit=raw#p19158
In this question a user asks whether they can clone a hard drive without any specific partition scheme. And the response of the TeraByte support team is yes, it is possible, which is great.
Now, supposing I follow TeraByte support's instructions as listed in that post. Namely, suppose I run the following commands
IFW: /copy /sd:w1 /td:w2 /raw
to clone the hard drive. This command will produce some output file as a result. Call it output.TBI
Now, what I'd like to ask is, will the file output.TBI contain additional metadata generated by the Terabyte Image for Windows program, or will the file output.TBI contain only the raw bytes of the cloned hard drive, similar to the way that the unix dd if=<TARGET_DISK> of=<EXTERNAL_DISK>/MyImage.img command works?
Thank you and I look forward to your response,
James Pedersen