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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Imaging Operating Systems
- To: "'Volker Tanger'" <volker.tanger@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Maarten'" <fulldisc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Imaging Operating Systems
- From: "Phillip R. Paradis" <prp17@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 04:23:25 -0400
>
> Ghost won't work (IIRC) on unknown OS types as it ony copies used data
> blocks. Netcat does a binary copy and does not care what OS or data...
>
Not sure about newer versions of Ghost, but I know some older versions will copy
unknown partition types just fine; it merely does a bitwise copy of the
partition/drive, including empty space. The downside being that the disk
geometry of the target disk must be identical, since the copied partition/disk
cannot be adjusted due to Ghost being unaware of it's internal structure.
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