Dale wrote:
> 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.

If you are moving the HD to a new computer certain device serial number and 
address change make cause copy-protection to kick in.

> community.  I usually use dd to dump a image to a
> disk. But that didnt' give me the results I wanted
> either.
> 

Once again, what exactly isn't it doing? It should work just fine:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

Make sure the destination disk is equal or larger than the source.