[ale] Copy harddrive with dd?

[Kevin Krumwiede]

dd has no intelligence when it comes to copy protection.  In particular, the
scheme a lot of CDs use now where one of the sectors reads bad... dd will
just hang when it reaches it.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Turner [mailto:artic_knight at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:40 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Copy harddrive with dd?
>
>
> the dd command... will it make an exact copy of a cd?
> say for instance i had a game i wanted to make copies
> of that had copy prevention software on it... how
> could i go about makeing an exact copy of cd? in
> working order same as origional?
>
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