Re: F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-19 Thread Dan Thurman
Les Mikesell wrote: Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither >> > drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded >> > to use dd as follows: >> > >> > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb >> > >> > It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data. >> > >> You would

Re: F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither > drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded > to use dd as follows: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb > > It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data. > You would be better off using gparted or clonzilla to d

Re: F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-19 Thread g
Dan Thurman wrote: I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded to use dd as follows: a while back, i tried running 'dd' from a live cd to 'clone' 2 drives of same brand, model, firmware, whole 9 yards. clone bombed every time. i cured pro

Re: F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel B. Thurman
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dan Thurman wrote: > > I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither > drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded > to use dd as follows: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb > > It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data. > You would be better off using gpa

Re: F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Dan Thurman wrote: I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded to use dd as follows: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data. You would be better off using gparted or clonzilla to do the copping. With

Re: F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-18 Thread Michael Wiktowy
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Dan Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can someone give me some guidance as to post-followup to dd, or > perhaps a repair of / partition, or to simply download Gparted-Live > and make a partition to partition copy of / (which I am downloading > as I write up thi

F9: Using dd to clone a drive...

2008-07-18 Thread Dan Thurman
I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded to use dd as follows: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data. I was successful at getting getting Grub to come up, was able to select XP and Vista partitions