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clone a flash drive?
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SNAAKE:
is this possible at all?
this usb flash drive is formatted with "CDFS" file system. I just need to make a clone. any experts around here wanna shed some light on how this might work??
thanks!! :burgerking:
MonMotha:
Does the drive show up as a standard "removable disk" or does it show up as a CD-ROM drive with a CD in it (the "U3" devices did this so that they could install their software using autorun). The former is doable; the latter requires a hacked up (firmware) flash drive.
It's not hard to put ISO-9660 (what Windows calls "CDFS") onto a flash drive from, say, Linux, but I'd like to make sure it'll actually do what you want before going down that path.
Note that ISO-9660 is a read-only filesystem.
SNAAKE:
it shows as a cd rom
Samstag:
If it shows up as a cd drive you should be able to use cd cloning/imaging tools. Otherwise there are free imaging tools out there like clonezilla and hdclone.
My personal preference would be "dd", but I doubt you want to go that route.
MonMotha:
Thing is, most USB flash drives don't show up as CD-ROM drives, and those that do are often read-only (since writing to a "CD" is more complicated than a "hard drive"). The only ones I know of that show up like that are made to autorun some crap software when the drive is connected to a Windows machine. You can't really clone that behavior, though you could copy the filesystem.
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