Cloning a Guardian Edge Protected Drive

Question

I need to clone/ghost a GE protected hard drive, but I am running into various issues. Norton Ghost seems to just freeze up, XXClone puts up strange errors. I realize the entire drive is encrypted, but would that make a difference to a cloning software?

Anybody have any experience with this?

Answer 1

Under Linux you can use the dd command to clone data from one drive to another.

If you don't have a machine running Linux, you can download a bootable CD from e.g. http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page which will have dd and other useful commands for dealing with hard drives and data recovery.