Hello;

Any assistance will be appreciated.

I have knoppix running from a cd. I'd like to image a IDE hd. I have 2 hds in the system. the one I want to image and a blank one. I'm a bit familiar with the dd utility to image a drive but I need a little hand holding.

If the drive is say a 40 gig hd and i know that only about 6 gigs are used can I image the drive to a blank hd of 10 gig? If so what are the step - commands etc.

will the dd tool also image deleted files and slack space?

Once I've created an image using the dd tool on the target drive I want to perform some tests (i.e. like recover deleted files - I have a tool to do this and intent to use Win2K with this tool against the imaged drive.) What do I have to do to make or unimage the hd or can I just perform the dd image from one drive to another?

I'm getting a bit lost now. But if there is a good url with this information (step by step) I'd be most appreciative. Otherwise someone with a bit of patience would help.

Thanks