Using dd to Dupe Bootable FAT32?

[Dan Shoop]

At 12:09 PM -0700 4/9/07, EatingPie wrote:
>I have a bootable FAT32 partion with Windows XP on my MacBook Pro.
>Just got a new drive, and I DO NOT want to re-install Windows if I can
>help it.
>
>The one UNIX utility I *think* will allow me to copy the partition
>is dd.  While I have some UNIX hacker creds, I'm damn well a dd newb
>(so much for those hacker creds).  Has anyone dded a bootable Windows
>partition, and willing to share instructions?  I'm taking a 10GB
>partition up to a 20GB partition... will that make any difference?

What's wrong with ASR or the restore util in Disk Utility? Or tar, 
ditto, cp, ...?

But yes, presuming you can duplicate the geometry exactly, dd should 
work if you run it against the raw device.
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-dhan

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