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Is there a way to do a sector level copy/clone from one hard drive to another?

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Mar 15, 202613281 views
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Without going into distracting details, I'm attempting to duplicate the contents of the 500GB drive in my MacBook to another 500GB drive. But this is turning out to be an unexpected hassle because the drive contains both the OS X partition and an NTFS partition with Win 7 via Apple's Boot Camp. Wit…

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In linux the dd command can do what you want. https://serverfault.com/questions/4906/using-dd-for-disk-cloning Just make sure not to clone the empty drive onto the drive you want to clone.

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