Bill, Ghost would be my choice for this, but for that in this situation you would need:
- Ghost (I guess that's obvious) - A LAN connection for your laptop - Another machine on the same LAN with enough space on its disk(s) to accomodate your data. Ghost can run across the LAN, so using this setup you could back up the whole physical drive on your laptop (all partitions at once), then bring them back to the new drive and even adjust the partition sizes as you go. Ghost will span disks if necessary, so you don't need all the space in one place. There are of course a few limitations: 1. I have done this with FAT32, FAT16, NTFS and EXT2 partitions, but I don't know whether Ghost can handle Reiser, Ext3 etc. If you have these, check first. 2. I think Ghost is more limited in what it can write to, than what it can read from. Running Ghost you are in a DOS environment, so I think that limits the options for writing your image file to a FAT partition. So, the machine to which you are writing your backup will probably need to be of the M$ persuasion. Good luck! /Brian On Monday 24 December 2001 11:59 am, you wrote: > no no no no.... it's YOU! YOU have to be good, then santa will > bring you the presents ;o) > > > > From: Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [newbie] total transfer to larger hard drive > >Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 07:19:36 -0500 > > > >Hi, > > If Santa is good to me I may have a larger hard drive for my laptop. My > >burner is already taking up my spare slot so I need to know if there is a > >way > >to back up all my data, including my dual boot windows partition, and then > >restore it en masse to the new, larger drive. In windows some of my > >colleagues use 'Ghost' to do this job and I understand that it may be able > >to > >do what I need, but I'm certain that there should be a similar utility for > >Mandrake 8.1. > > December 23, Christmas getting closer......I'm getting so excited! > > > >Happy holidays to all! > > > >Bill W. > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
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