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Using dd to clone Windows Feb 15th 2013, 14:21 I'm trying to use dd to clone my Windows partitions from linux. I want to get rid of Windows and put it on another harddrive. Do not want to delete Windows since it is a OEM version. Anyway the two first partitions on my harddrive belongs to Windows. I have connected a secondary harddrive to linux and executed dd. username@pluto:~> sudo dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror 106422+1 records in 106422+1 records out 435907584 bytes (436 MB) copied, 0,958252 s, 455 MB/s username@pluto:~> sudo dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=4096 conv=notrunc,noerror dd: writing «/dev/sdb2»: No space left on device 894515+0 records in 894514+0 records out 3663929344 bytes (3,7 GB) copied, 8,3846 s, 437 MB/s The first partition seems to go OK, but for the second it doesn't. Drive sdb is twice the size of sba1+sda2. I have even tried to create two partition sdb1 and sdb2 before running dd, but with same result. So any suggestions?

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