On 09/16/2011 10:06 PM, Neal wrote:
> If at least one of the old or new drives is WD or Seagate you can
> download free software from the respective manufacturer to do disk
> cloning (and backups as well as many other drive-related tasks). They
> are OEM-ified Acronis True Image. I've had no troubl
I have heard similar about them but I have never had a problem with using
them with dd. I think they don't work well for data recovery or forensics,
but that is a much lower level than what you are using it for. Should work
fine.
Good luck,
Jason
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Richard C. Ste
If at least one of the old or new drives is WD or Seagate you can
download free software from the respective manufacturer to do disk
cloning (and backups as well as many other drive-related tasks). They
are OEM-ified Acronis True Image. I've had no trouble using either
package, including cloning an
On 09/16/2011 08:56 PM, Jason Barnett wrote:
> Yes, that process should work, but there is an easier way. If you have
> access to a IDE to USB adapter (I have one I would be willing to loan) just
> swap out the drives, boot from a live linux CD then use dd to copy straight
> from the old laptop dri
Yes, that process should work, but there is an easier way. If you have
access to a IDE to USB adapter (I have one I would be willing to loan) just
swap out the drives, boot from a live linux CD then use dd to copy straight
from the old laptop drive to the new one. Once done, use gparted to resize
In the spring of 2006 I bought an Acer Aspire 1640Z laptop. Yesterday I
upgraded the RAM to 2 GB and bought a 320 GB hard drive for it so I
could have both Win XP and Linux on it in a dual boot configuration.
Step one was to install XP. After a half an hour of searching all the
places I store C
