Software to copy an entire disk to another ?

> I'm currently cloning the disk (with "dd" - quite long !), and as soon
> as I'll get a working image, I'll feel safer to experiment other
> proposed solutions to clone the disk and repair the partition table.

Just don't touch the original disk at this point of time. Use the clones
to attempt recovery. Hard disks are cheap these days.

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Rod Speed a utilisé son clavier pour écrire :
> Louis <not_valid.DeleteThis@spam.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply,
>
>>> If the drive is fine, you can use any of the major imagers like True
>>> Image or Ghost and image the entire physical drive at the sector level.
>
>> Are you referring to a specific version of Acronis ?
>
> Yeah, sorry, that showed up with 11 from memory.
>
>> I looked at True Image Workstation version 8 and True Image Home version 10
>> and I can't find any indication that imaging an entire disk would include
>> the non partitionned disk areas.
>
> Its a tick box with disk and partition backups with 11.

My understanding is that it will image the unused parts of an existing
partition, not the unpartitioned parts of a disk..

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq/sector-by-...tor-bac

Is this the same with Ghost ?