Because DD assumes that both drives are the same size. You wouldn't want to dd 3Gb of contents on to a 20Gb drive. I don't know of an effective way to get around this. Scott On Jan 2, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Steve Dawes wrote: > why not use dd > > > Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:21 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: moving contents from one drive to another > > > Folks,someone has asked if I could take their winblows drive and move > the entire contents over to a new drive. The old drive is not in the > best of health. Is there a utility that would move the entire > contents including boot info so fdisk would not have to be used to > restore the boot record? The drives are of different sizes. > > tnx > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
