Good luck at trying to do that I don't think it is possible ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale" To: "kclug" Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: Re: making a exact copy of a HD > Okay. what I am after is an EXACT copy of a HD. > ghost makes a copy but it isn't exact apperantly cause > it didnt' copy over some of the information on the > original drive.. such as a software ID for the system. > > anyway, what I wanted to do is get a perfect dup of > the HD which only has 1 partition. to another hd > I use a HD with no partitions defined. for the > destination. > > ghost as I said will copy the drive to the point that > I can run it.. but it dont' duplicate the software ID. > And since ghost is a PCDOS program I know that there > has to be something really simular in the lin > community. I usually use dd to dump a image to a > disk. But that didnt' give me the results I wanted > either. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >