[clue-tech] Cloning Windows XP disk with Linux

[Angelo Bertolli]

bof wrote:
> I have a Windows XP laptop that I need to clone to a external USB hard
> drive for archiving in the event something happens to the laptop and I
> need to reinstall it.
>
> Is there a way that I can do this with Linux?
If your external USB hard drive is big enough, you can use dd with linux
to just make a disk image.  However, since the NTFS write support isn't
there 100% yet, you might want to just use Window's xcopy instead.

Angelo