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hi,iam trying too create a image file of my windows mobile phone and save it too my desktop.iam using archlinux in vmware.my windows phone mounts as "/dev/sdb" and my vmware hard drive is on "/dev/sda" i need a sector by sector image made.whats the proper dd command too use to do this?thanks
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hi,iam trying too create a image file of my windows mobile phone and save it too my desktop.iam using archlinux in vmware.my windows phone mounts as "/dev/sdb" and my vmware hard drive is on "/dev/sda" i need a sector by sector image made.whats the proper dd command too use to do this?thanks
I don't know offhand, but:
man dd
might provide some information
EDIT: And welcome to Arch, or at least the forums
Last edited by cesura (2010-03-31 02:45:17)
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thanks i tried the man command,but it just made me more confused.lol.i just dont want too type the wrong thing and overwrite my hard drive or anything.
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dd if=/dev/sdb of=winmobile.img bs=512
...although this would be pretty tedious, I recommend a byte size of 1M or more instead.
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i believe the total size of the phones partition is 120mb.so change the bs= too 1024? i want it too be quick as possible,but not too the point of it missing files.as far as the command "of=winmobile.img",how does it know where too create the image file too?i dont have too tell it where too save the file to?thanks by the way.
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Sure, try it with bs=1024. If it gets too slow, increase it by twice as much to 2048 and so forth if necessary.
Using "of=winmobile.img" will put the image in your current working directory at time you enter the command. You can specify an absolute path instead if you want the file to be in a different location.
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thank you so much,i really appreciate the help!
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