Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-29 Thread Maciek Borzęcki
On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 00:37 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > dd if=/dev/sd of=/dev/sd bs=16M > and wait. there is no progress visible! Well, not exactly. One can use kill -USR1 to see the current progress report. > > dd if=/dev/sda | ssh root@192.168.196.129 "dd of=/dev/sda bs=16M"

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.12.2012 00:22, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: >> Besides, I agree with your conclusion, that Clonezilla may be the best >> way for you. I used it and I like it. >> > I am thankful for all the comments, I have just finished my backup of my > entire system, I'm still "skiffy" when it > comes

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/27/2012 11:15 AM, Paweł Brodacki wrote: 2012/12/27 Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. : WOW!so much information to digest! Thanks to one and all, but after reading the responses, I think the Clonezilla way might be for me, I'm not too familiar with the Terminal and the command lines and suchal

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Paweł Brodacki
2012/12/27 Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. : > WOW!so much information to digest! Thanks to one and all, but after > reading the responses, I think the Clonezilla way might be for me, I'm not > too familiar with the Terminal and the command lines and suchalthough I > think it would be AWESOME to be

Re: [Bulk] Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Bill Davidsen
Phil Savoie wrote: On 12/26/2012 09:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this wh

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-27 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 26 Dec 2012 at 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: Date sent: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:50:07 -0500 From: "Eddie G. O'Connor Jr." To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Swapping HDD > I am curr

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 27.12.2012, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this > when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the Gateway? - Connect your new HDD to your laptop (e.g. as an external drive). - Get the new HDD partitioned and formatted -

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 12/27/2012 12:04 AM, staticsafe wrote: On 12/26/12 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. H

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread staticsafe
On 12/26/12 21:50, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm > finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I > have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I > do this when I don't have an

Re: [Bulk] Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Phil Savoie
On 12/26/2012 09:50 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have anot

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Sam Varshavchik
fred smith writes: if that doesn't get you where you need to go, you might try: --with the new drive connected via USB --boot from the aforementioned live CD --create the partitions as you want them --pray a while... --copy all the files from each partition on the OLD drive into the matching p

Re: Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 09:50:07PM -0500, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote: > I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm > finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I > have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I > do

Swapping HDD....

2012-12-26 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
I am currently using a Gateway T-6321 laptop with a 320 GB SATA HD. I'm finding it's running out of room, with all the pdf's and other files I have accumulated. I want to swap it out to a 750GB SATA HDD. How can I do this when I don't have another laptop with the same exact specs as the Gatewa