dd in=/dev/sda out=/dev/sdb

Jack jack at coats.org
Mon Oct 1 07:38:30 EDT 2007


Pull out old drive, 
Put in new drive, 
Install on new drive
Put in old drive (as D/E or whatever)
Find the utility in Vista that does migration from old to new

Gosh does M$ systems even have dd?  If so, then M$ is seeing the light like
Apple and just putting a wrapper on a *NIX like OS.

I would go read M$'s technet first

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From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf Of
Kristian Erik Hermansen
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:56 AM
To: Stephen Adler
Cc: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: dd in=/dev/sda out=/dev/sdb

On 9/30/07, Stephen Adler <adler at stephenadler.com> wrote:
> What's the windows equivalent of doing a
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
>
> in windows vista? My c: drive is too small an I want to add a larger d:
> drive, copy all off what's on c: to d: and make d: bootable, then swap 
> the disks.
>
> (I know... this isn't a MS mailing list... sorry.)

c: > dd if=\\.\PhysicalDrive0 of=\\.\PhysicalDrive1

???  dunno :-(
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