Clone Raw Data (Blank Hard Disk)
A partition and disk imaging/cloning program
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My boss wants to create an image of a blank hard drive so that it can be cloned via multicast to multiple systems at once. He essentially wants full zeros written, and this will allow him to do it simultaneously. Because there are no partitions, I have not been able to get Clonezilla to work with it. I could do it with "dd" but the file is rather large and that takes quite a while to send over the network (plus we don't have any storage devices with the capacity to hold the entire image). I understand this probably seems like a ridiculous idea, but hey, orders are orders, and he wants it done this way. He doesn't want to just remove the partitions or write zeros with DBAN like we did with the original hard drive, so here's the idea.
Sorry. Now Clonezilla does not support a disk without any partition. If you can create a partition and dump zero on that, maybe Clonezilla can clone it.
Steven.