How to savely copy a disk?

To: Peter Weiss <pw@InterFace-AG.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, am@InterFace-AG.com
Subject: How to savely copy a disk?
From: Martyn Pearce <m.pearce@inpharmatica.co.uk>
Date: 18 Nov 1999 11:58:53 +0000
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Peter Weiss writes:
| Hello,
| 
|     my harddisk is on the edge (still dma/ irq errors). Is there an easy way
|     to copy all partitions (Vfat WinNT/ Debian Linux/ Linux Swap) to new one
|     without reinstalling all things?

dd --- diskdump --- is what you want.  Byte for byte copying.

Mx.

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