<html><head></head><body>The dd will migrate the format as well as the data so no need. However, you will need to create partitions on the new location that are at least the same size as the originals.<br>
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If you want a file copy, use rsync onto a formatted partition.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 12, 2015 10:44:46 AM EST, H P Ladds <householdwords@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I have an external hard drive failing and hope to DD the drive to a new external hard drive.<br /><br /></div>Should I reformat the new drive to ext3 (or ext4) before DDing?<br /><br /></div>The failing drive has two 500 gig partitions (I believe ext3). Should I DD the partitions separately or DD the entire drive? <br /><br /></div>After DDing I'll try to retrieve the data. Oh and it is all data, no OS.<br /><br /></div>TIA,<br /></div>Preston<br /></div>
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