Using DD for windows for disk cloning?

[Cold_B]

I'm trying to clone a hard drive from a raid array that is dying, and I think I'm going to have to use DD to do it. Norton Ghost won't install on Windows 8, and Acronis true image won't work because the disk doesn't have a drive letter in windows.

From what I've read DD can do what I'm trying to do, but I can't figure out how to work it. Could someone give me a quick rundown on what to do?

According to this ( http://www.ehow.com/how_7470563_clone-encrypted-hard-drive.html ) it doesn't look to hard, but Windows 8 doesn't have fdisk.

I guess what I'm asking is, does the ehow link give the correct command to run, and how do I figure out which disk is /dev/disk1 (or whatever it will be).

Thanks!

 

[Pieter3dnow]

http://clonezilla.org/

Free to use should work fine, will boot from usb stick

Software RAID/fake RAID/firmware RAID is not supported by default. It's can be done manually only.

But if it is a single disk it might still work ?

 

[Blue Fox]

You can use clonezilla. Once you have it booted, go into disk to disk mode. There it will tell you what disk is what (based on serial number and model). You can then cancel out of that and go to the command line. To copy sda to sdb, you'd do the following (this works even if it's part of a RAID array, be it software or hardware):

pv=tpreb /dev/sda | dd of=/dev/sdb

 

[extide]

If you are cloning the disk to another one that is the exact same size and all I would use dd.

I would use:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

of course replace sda and sdb with your drives.