What would be the proper command? Can you do whole harddrives at a time or do you need to do the separate partitions individually?
In Linux, it would be:
dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb --progress
That copies hard disk A to hard disk B including partition data.
Windows was something like:
dd bs=1M if=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 of=\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 --progress
The Windows \\?\Device namespace (the \\Global?\ namespace in Win2000)'s Partition0 of Harddisk objects is the actual device transparent of the filesystem.
Maybe he's talking about this? Some people believe dd means ``Destroy Disk'' or ``Delete Data'' because if it is misused, a partition or output file can be trashed very quickly. Since dd is the tool used to write disk headers, boot records, and similar system data areas, misuse of dd has probably trashed many hard disks and file systems.
Oh, I see. Morons used it and it broke, therefore it's an evil destructive command. Much like the "restore" command of DOS. Morons should be required to have a license to breathe. I would revoke it if I was king.
