Copying Disks

Linux has some powerful tools that allow you to copy disks.

You can copy a disk to an image. You may find this useful if you are having drive issues and want to create a copy of the drive that can expoerment on. You can do this simply with dd.

dd if=/dev/sda of=file-image-of-sda-drive.img

Here is an HowTo copy a Windows drive with Linux.

http://www.nilbus.com/linux/disk-copy.php