I did actually use dd to begin with but it didn't work as I wanted it too right away (can't remember why, probably something SUSE related) and by then I'd used

I did actually use dd to begin with but it didn't work as I wanted it too right away (can't remember why, probably something SUSE related) and by then I'd used up 6 mins of the 15 mins I gave myself for the job. I also had to do the same test on windows, so python won