On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 03:55, Fromm Andreas wrote: > Hi, > > I need a simple and fast way to restore the computers of a teaching room running WinNT after they are modyfied during the different trainings we offer here. I was thinking of making this with a linux boot cd wich gets the image from a server and writes the partition. Now my question is, is it possible to write a ntfs partition from an image with dd? > > I meen something like this: > > #create the image > dd bs=512 </dev/hda1 of=/netmount/image > > #play around with the machiene > > #restore > reformat ntfs partition > dd bs=512 if=/netmount/image >/dev/hda1 Yup, no problem with doing this. The filesystem doesn't even matter because dd accesses the raw bits off the device. I don't know about your usage of the command though. I would think you would do it more like this dd if=/dev/ntfs_drive of=/name/of/imagefile and to restore dd if=/name/of/imagefile of=/dev/ntfs_drive This is how I have imaged some fat32 partitions. The nice thing is that you can also mount the image in loopback mode if you want to copy any files from it. -Mark
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