Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Disk 2 Disk (Part Deux)

[Al Grant]

> 1) When going disk to disk can you image both the whole drive and all its
> partitions or can you only go disk to disk on a partition by partition
> basis?
>    

>You can do whatever you want.  On a practical level, it depends on what
your problem is.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for replying - your replies are always pretty good.

The scenario I am thinking of is a drive with some bad sectors and one
partition containing Windows XP (NTFS).

By ddrescue disk-disk, then once on the new disk I can run a repair
installation and hey presto I have a new disk with a now booting
installation of XP.

In most cases the partition table is not affected.

Sound feeasble?

I cant think why I would want to image a single partition, but If I wanted
to image /dev/sda1 to a new blank disk, wouldnt I have to first create that
partiton, with the correct size, file system type etc first?

Cheers

-Al
PS: I had no problem using dd to write a ddresuce .bin to a new disk.
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