Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Matt Stegman wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: OK, suppose the old hard drive has 35 sectors per track. If the new hard drive has fewer, say, 30, then dd will write the 31st sector of a give track somewhere else, Murphy only knows

RE: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-31 Thread Dave Lers
Re: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Gilbert Baron wrote: How much of an ancient method this is compared to a program like Power Quest Drive Image. It creates an image of a partition on the second drive and the ONLY requirement is that there be enough space fro it to fit on the

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-31 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: A simple dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc works great, super backup

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-31 Thread Daniel Bodanske
: - Original Message - From: "fasi74" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:46 PM Subject: [expert] copying whole harddrive ! I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR all operating systems present on that drive. On an harddrive that is n

[expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread fasi74
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 ?

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
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

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Dave Lers wrote: 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

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Dave Lers 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

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: 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 =

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Any modern drives that do this? E.g.? If this is a real concern (must be pretty rare as I've never seen it mentioned in dd disk mirroring discussions) he could still dd the whole drive if he took the precaution of backing up the first xx bytes off the disk being copied to. I thought

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: 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

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: A simple dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc works great, super backup method, all you need to do is swap drives (plug

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Matt Stegman
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: OK, suppose the old hard drive has 35 sectors per track. If the new hard drive has fewer, say, 30, then dd will write the 31st sector of a give track somewhere else, Murphy only knows where, or it will error out and refuse to write it. So you are

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Matt Stegman
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

RE: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Gilbert Baron
, 2000 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive ! On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Dave Lers wrote: A simple dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc

Re: [expert] copying whole harddrive !

2000-07-29 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Gilbert Baron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 10:30 PM Subject: RE: [expert] copying whole harddrive ! How much of an ancient method this is compared to a program like Power Quest Drive Image. It create