Re: Backing up entire windows hard drive

["Matt Shields-4" <user=23@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Matt Shields <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Not totally about linux, but I will be using Linux utils to do this.  I've 
> got a new laptop that currently has Vista on it.  Because of licensing 
> issues I've seen in the past, where you can only reimage a few times before 
> you end up having to call MS, I'd like to take a snapshot of the HD to an 
> attached USB drive before I do anything with the laptop.  I'd like it to be 
> able to use it as a complete restore including the MBR if necessary.  Can I 
> do this with a bootable linux distro and dd?  I've used dd for mirroring one 
> hard drive to another when setting up multiple linux servers that I wanted 
> alike.  I'm assuming that this would be the same, but the laptop drive and 
> the USB drive are different sizes and types. 
> 
> -- 
> -matt