On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Joseph Cheng wrote:
Hello I have an OS installation and data on a 40 gb drive that I would
like to image to a 80 gb drive. I don't care if the resulting
partition layout on the new drive is only 40 gb making me lose space.
I just want to move everything from the older drive because I think
it's failing. I have looked at partimage and mondo rescue as imaging
solutions but both deal with partitions. CAn someone plz point me to a
howto that shows how to image the entire drive incuding mbr, partiton
table and data all with one program? I am hoping to boot with a CD to
do this while having both drives plugged in. So I think something like
knoppix? TIA!
1) install second drive
2) boot into knoppix
3) dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb obs=4096
this assumes /dev/hda is the 40gb drive and /dev/hdb is the 80gb;
change device names as appropriate. the dd command will give you no
output (unless a problem occurs) and will probably take a while.
-steve
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