unlocked xbox drive bit for bit copy to new disk

[Mikeosoft]

Hey guys I have purchased a bunch of 2TB drives and have formatted the first one with a 64k clusters and spent the past two days setting up everything the way i like it.

I have a second exact same manufacture and size 2TB drive new in box that I want to set up the exact same way.

I remember back in the day there was norton ghost 2002 to do a bit for bit copy, but alas the times have changed and that software is all but gone with the ide controller cards that came and went.

Here's an outdated tutorial:
http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/clone-hdd.php

So now I have downloaded and tried 3 different ISO methods with a pc, and had ZERO success:

1. Clonezilla
---Tries to read the source drive and identify OS boot perameters and boot.ini. I tell it not to, and it attempts to read individual partitons and finds nothing... Obviously. I thought this software was "bit for bit" "disk to disk" replacement for ghost. Guess not?

2. Acronis True Image
---Tries to tell me there's no data on my source disk and cannot copy. There's no place to dd command, no way to tell it to stop trying to read the disk and just clone the damn thing bit for bit garbled as garbled

3. G4L
boots to an eth0 and wont allow me to tell it commands


Will burning a linux distro live iso and issuing a "dd" command allow me to do what i want? Also BOTH HARDDRIVES ARE UNLOCKED AND WILL REMAIN UNLOCKED. Both systems are hardmodded TSOP flashed with INDBIOS

[whufclee]

I still haven't tried this out but in theory it should work... if you use xboxhdm2_2 you can boot from USB so presumably you could use a large USB drive which has all the content you need added to it and use that. Should be a quick way to do it if you're doing a lot of boxes that contain the same content. I know doing a basic soft mod using USB is loads quicker than the old CD method! Not sure it will do the correct cluster sizes though if you're on a big hdd, you might need to check that out.

Failing that how about using xplorer360, again not tried it but I guess it should work if you're already pre formatted.

[professor_jonny]

HDD Raw Copy Tool works well for what you want it to do, It disreguards os file system etc and just copys the raw data but you must have the same drive and no bad sectors etc...

most clone tools try to or have the ability to stretch and shrink the image to a new size drive and they need to know the filing system in use to be able to do that.
a raw copy or raw clone tool or raw drive image tool is what you need the image will be the size or near the size of the hdd not the size of the data on it, compression does not work well with raw data.

-Raw disk image

This is a sector-by-sector read of the drive. It is an exact duplicate of the entire drive. Useful for trying to create an image from a damaged or encrypted drive. Useful in forensic analysis.

This type of image will be the same size as the hard drive, not just the data that is on it. So for example a 300GB hard drive will create a 300GB raw image, even if there is only 2GB of data on it. Again useful if trying to recover lost/deleted data from a damaged drive.

-Cloning

An exact copy of the data/partitions of the drive. But only the data and file structure. The data and file structure needs to be readable. Cloning would not work on a damged or encrypted drive. A raw disk image wold be needed in that situation.

If you have a piece of paper with some writing on it, then cloning would be an exact copy of the writing inlcuding the letters, font, spacing etc... to a new piece of paper while a raw disk image would be an exact photocopy of the entire page including the writing and all of the blank space as well.

[whufclee]

This could prove to be very useful, thanks for the info PJ

[Mikeosoft]

http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/

thanks professor this looks like the perfect thing i'm trying to find.

booting up my pc now to try it with.

Regards,
mike

[Mikeosoft]

HI just checking back in, this worked perfectly. Thanks so much everyone. Just for future reference, this tool will do exactly what it says.

[professor_jonny]

Yip i have used it many times as all my xbox drives seem to be 8 or 10 gig so it works well