Thanks ... When I say clone, I mean basically 'Ghost' ... Not a sector/track/cylinder match exactly, and actually a way to copy an older drive to a newer drive that could be larger, without a separate 'partition magic' type activity after cloning...
And although ghost/acronis might work, key in the question was 'freeware' ... -----Original Message----- From: Edward B. DREGER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Best freeware disk cloner for SATA drives ? JLC> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:31:10 -0600 JLC> From: Joseph L. Casale JLC> I wanted to say that too, but that complicates things drastically JLC> if the drives are not the same, Google: gparted-livecd systemrescuecd-x86 JLC> its also *very* slow as dupes the drive byte-by-byte. Totally false. I've moved 20 MB/sec over USB 2.0, and far better with internal drives. # for 128 kB blocks: dd if=/dev/WHATEVER_X of=/dev/WHATEVER_Y bs=131072 JLC> If you need the flexibility to restore to different drives, you JLC> could use ghost/acronis etc. See above ISO images. :-) (FWIW, when I hear "clone", I think "identical".) Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita ________________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.2/1389 - Release Date: 4/21/2008 8:34 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.2/1389 - Release Date: 4/21/2008 8:34 AM ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
