Clone A Drive With dd

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Mini How To on Jan 7th, 2009 | 1 comment

“Mini How To” Clone A Drive With dd

Cloning under Windows always requires a third party application.  In Linux we can use a build in command to clone a drive.

Why And When Would You Need This.

You can use this for a number of applications.

  • Imaging a drive to a iso file.
  • Clone a defective harddrive to save data.
  • Replace a harddrive for a bigger one.

Keep in mind that there are more efficient ways of doing this.  But if you need to clone a drive or make an image of a hard drive, and you only have access to a Live CD.  Then using dd is a great way to do this.  Also it does not matter if the harddrive has ntfs of ext3 or any of the other file systems dd will image the harddrive not matter what file system is on the drive.

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