On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, kf wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> = ----- Original Message -----
> = From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> = > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems
> = > present on that drive.
> = > On an harddrive that is not as same as this harddrive in capacity.
> = > is there some software like this ?
> = >
> = If it is a new hd retail box there should be software on the included floppy
> I've done this with floppies before, but never with hard drives, so I'm
> not guaranteeing anything at all... you're on your own with the results.
> Having said that, you might try
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=XXXX
> I'd be very curious to know if this works for you.
A simple
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc
works great, super backup method, all you need to do is swap drives
(plug hdc in where hda was). You want both drives as master, 1 per
channel. The drive you are writing to needs to be the same size or
bigger. Since my drives are almost identical I haven't played with,
don't know how to, utilize extra space if copying to a noticeably
larger drive.
There's also a disk upgrade howto, for copying over to a bigger drive,
( http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html ) that I
used with reasonable success (I messed up somewhere but was able to
recover). Its not simple and straight forward, there's got to be a
better way.
Note: I've only used these methods with Linux only disks
Ghost worked great on my windows disk but I couldn't get it to work on
my Linux disk.
