> Arbee its a harddrive from fruit machine, > im trying to create a system to be able to backup these drives and rewrite them to > either new drives or sdcard system to use in fruit machines. > As we know the drives used are now starting to get on a bit and prone to failures, > which manufacturers no longer wish to support. > If windows is not suitable for creating a backup system then would a linux system be > more use for me to create and write these. > It will only be used for backup/rewrite of these and video games. Nothing else.
Yes. On Linux, do: dd if=/dev/(whatever the drive is) of=drive_image.bin bs=512 as root.