From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-03-11 13:21, David W. Hodgins wrote:   
   > On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:52:17 -0400, Daniel70  september.org> wrote:   
   >   
   >> Some time ago, I backed up my Laptop's 500GB internal HD to an 2TB   
   >> external HD using (I forget) ... It might have been 'dd' but I doubt it.   
   >   
   > Depending on how you did it, the backup may be in a file in a   
   > partition on the 2TB drive, or the partition table may have been   
   > copied so that the partitions on the 2TB drive are the same as they   
   > were on the 500GB drive.   
      
   Just my thoughts.   
      
   >   
   >> However, the 500GB Internals Image took up 500GB on the External (i.e. a   
   >> byte-by-byte image, even the empty bytes, apparently!).   
   >>   
   >> Now, when I look at that External HD using my Win 11 Desk-top, it   
   >> doesn't 'see' anything.   
   >   
   > WIndows should see an "unknown" file system in the existing partition(s).   
      
   And helpfully offer to format it >:-P   
      
   >> Is this because Linux is at a 'Higher'/'deeper' level than Windows can   
   >> 'see'??   
   >   
   > M$ doesn't want to make it easy for windows users to use anything else.   
   >   
   >> If I back-up this Win-11 Desktop to the same External HD, is there a   
   >> possibility that Win-11 will write itself over the Linux Image?? Or is   
   >> Win-11 able to detect that there is 'something' there so will go looking   
   >> for the next available UNUSED portion of the External HD??   
   >   
   > It really matters how the backup was done. Windows may overwrite it   
   > or it may allow you to create new partitions on the drive. I don't   
   > trust windows for anything, and haven't used it much since XP. I   
   > occasionally troubleshoot things for others, but try to avoid it as   
   > much as I can.   
   >   
   > Don't write anything to the drive until you know exactly what is on   
   > there. Working with low level tools like dd make it easy to wipe out   
   > data with a single typo.   
      
   Right. Start listing the partition table, from Linux. Then do something   
   like:   
      
   file -s /dev/sdZ*   
      
   It might have been 'dd', or perhaps Clonezilla. Maybe there is a single   
   ext4 partition there, with the image files inside.   
      
      
      
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