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Copy one disk to another using Linux and DD

Posted on by Randy

The following will copy two disks, partition table and all, with forensic quality, and pad the destination disk with zeroes if any data is unreadable on the source disk. Be sure you’ve identified which disk is which using combinations of dmesg and ‘fdisk -l’. The destination disk must also be equal or greater in size. […]

Windows: Ignore errors with Xcopy and RoboCopy

Posted on by Randy

To copy entire directory structures as quickly as possible and ignore all disk errors (useful in data recovery) either of the following commands should work with robocopy being the quickest (if you’ve got Vista/7 or XP with the XP Resource Kit installed). Both commands use source -> destination path order. xcopy /C/H/R/S/Y c:\ d:\ /C […]