I realize you wanted to do this with Open Source tools but the Powerquest Drive Image tool will do this quickly and reliably. In a UNIX environment, I've cloned disks using dd but it gets complicated when you mix in Microsoft formats. Not only that but you probably want to make the new 60 gig drive a single large partition and although Drive Image will do that automatically, it probably would be more difficult with Linux based tools. It should be easier to copy a FAT32 partition and use Windows ME than for example NTFS and any of the NT variant OSs. I guess when you bought the 60 gig drive it didn't come with any utilities right? If you happen to buy a Maxtor or a Western Digital drive, both manufacturers include utilities that do what Drive Image does i.e. make a mirror of the partition and allow you to grow the target partition to the size of the available disk. You might want to check the web site for the manufacturer of the 60 gig drive to see if they have downloadable utilities.
-Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 11:25 AM Subject: Re: Using linux to clone a Windows ME disk? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Note that Knoppix has a graphical parititioning too, qtparted. In the past, I have backed up my Windows ME partitions with tar, and I have restored them. The only real caveat is booting. The DOS utility, sys.com is used to set up the appropriate pointer to msdos.sys et. al. here are the steps that I would use: 1. create a DOS boot floppy with sys.com on it: windows/command/sys.com 2. Boot into your Knoppix system. Assume that /dev/hdaa is your wife's old drive and /dev/hdb is the new drive. (hdb is usually the primary slave and hdc is the secondary master). 3. Use cfdisk or qtparted to create the aprpopriate partitions on the new drive. 4. Mount the C: drive from /dev/hda1 and the new drive, /dev/hdb1 5. Use rsync or cp to recursively copy the contents of the old C: drive to the new C: drive. 6. Recable so that the new drive is the primary master. 7. Boot the floppy. Run fdisk to see if it recognizes the new drive. Also run fdisk /mbr just to clean up the master boot record. You might also change to C: and do a dir on it just in case. 8. Run sys on the new C: drive. 9 Remove the floppy and boot the new hard drive. On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:42:00 -0500 Jeff Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to upgrade my wife's laptop. She has a 10gig hd and I > bought her a 60gig to replace it. I also got to 2.5 -> 3.5 ide > adapters. My dual boot Win98 and Linux system sees the disks fine > (I've removed my disks). I created a Win ME boot disk following the > instructions at www.xxcopy.com (xcopy apparently can't copy long file > names correctly, it creates new ones). > > So C drive is old disk > D drive is new disk > > Problem 1. > Win ME Fdisk only creates a 8 gig partition (bios sees all 60). > > Fine, I boot a Knoppix CD and use cfdisk to create a valid partition > (I select FAT32 (0B) - not FAT32 with LBA. While I'm at it I format > the disk using mkdosfs with -F 32 -n melissa. > > Problem 2. > Back in Win ME using xxcopy - it complains about write errors after a > few hours of operation. > > Problem 3. > Since formatting in Linux took about 30 secs (if even that), I decide > to use Win ME to format disk. It dies at the end stating something out > a write protect error! > > I'm now testing the media by simply copying the C drive to D using > linux. I repartitioned the HD and formatted it with ext2. I mount the > old disk and I'm simply doing: > > cd /mnt/hda1 > cp -v -a * /mnt/hdb1 > > After that I may try reformatting the new drive again - this time > using mkdosfs again and using linux again to do the copy. But I have > doubts that this would work since I don't know how to see the short > file names within linux. > > Should I just give up and buy ghost? > > > -- > Jeff Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My birding blog: > http://www.virtualbuilder.com/archives/cat_birding.html > Into birding? Visit http://www.migratus.com > - -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAG9cT+wA+1cUGHqkRAvFYAJ9xPZJcwWc+gERilh/n/z/kGfK/CwCfWPJ3 DThU7qiys4BQIbjw3fAtqpo= =Rk/7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
