On Monday 10 Nov 2003 9:27 am, Felix Miata wrote:Anne,
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 6:24 am, Felix Miata wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
dd can copy anything anywhere that there exist sectors to read & write. The example above should copy the MBR and partition tables, as well as all files on all partitions.
That sounds good. But how do I handle the various partitions? Do I partition the new drive first? And format them?
That command copies all sectors, including partition table sectors, like when you do 'dd if=somefloppyimage of=/dev/fd0' to create an installation diskette. AFAIK, it's exactly what the very first Ghost or Partition Image versions would have done.
Right. I'm going to try Charlie's suggestion of changing the cpu fan first, just in case that's all it is. If it isn't that, I'll get a new drive and try dd. Thanks for the help
Anne
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I had a similar problem with my 6 months old IBM HD. According to IBM's website the problem goes away after you reformat the drive. I tried it and it worked. If your's is an IBM try this after backing up the data.
-Sridhar
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