So, i'm moving soon and have a few old hard drives I would like to make a sector by sector clone of; so i don't need to take the drives with me. Reason being, long long ago, I may have had a BTC wallet on one that may have been deleted during a windows install that failed (Hence the sector by sector clone). Id like the clone the drives then when i get around to it, set up an ubuntu VM to scan the cloned drive's images using a BTC scan tool. (If you're interested https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0 ) 

 

What would you recommend for cloning a drive like that? Maybe clone is the wrong word since i'm not putting it to another dive, but looking to have an image file of some sort i can scan later. 

 

-Thanks,

dd

3 hours ago, JonathanM said:

dd

 

So I pop in a drive, and want to clone it to a .img file i would use: 

 

sudo dd if=/dev/sdi of=/mnt/user/Archives/HardDrive_01.img bs=16M

 

And it would create an image of the hard drive "sdi" and place the .img file called "HardDrive_01.img" in the share called Archives?

Edited January 16, 20224 yr by Maximus01701

Sounds about right, except no need for sudo in unraid.