[KLUG Members] Re: Members digest, Vol 1 #273 - 2 msgs

[Adam Bultman]

An easier way would be to use norton ghost. I realize it's not linux, but 
it's about 9 times easier.

I've used it for years, and never had a single fault. Here's what you 
could do:

1.  Make a windows boot disk.
2.  Boot to boot disk (which both drives installed).
3.  Make partitions on the new drive using Fdisk(optional).
4.  Reboot, if you made partitions.
5.  Boot to boot disk.
6.  Start GHOST.  
7.  Make a copy of the hard drive to the partition (ideally, the first 
partition, if there are many) using ghost. It will transfer the boot 
partition, the whole ball of wax.  It'll even stretch the partition size 
if you want to strech an 8 GB partition to 40 GB.  

Depending on how much data is on the drive, it won't take long, and it 
involves a lot less movement of hardware.  

It's the easiest way to make bit-for-bit copies, images, etc.  I used 
(until I started running linux more, heh) to keep a copy of a 'perfect 
windows' install so that when it died, within 10 minutes (seriously) I was 
back up and running like nothing happened.



adam


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Larry 
Kopenkoskey wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My brother-in-law is looking for a way to upgrade his Hard Drive (his
> kids need more space for their harry potter game).  He uses windows, but
> I thought this may be a great time to show him the *power and ability*
> of linux.
> 
> I would like to purchase a new hard drive (20 - 40 GB) physically
> install it in his computer, and copy the contents from his old hard
> drive (~8 GB) to the new one.
> 
> Are the following steps viable:
> 
> 1) FDISK and format the drive under windows.
> 2) Boot from a rescue floppy disk or cdrom.
> 3) Mark the new drive as bootable using linux fdisk.
> 4) Mount both drives under linux.
> 5) Use 'cp -a' to move the contents of the old HD to the new HD.
> 6) Copy the boot sector from the old HD to the new HD;
>    example: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd bs=512 count=1
> 7) Jumper the new HD as the primary HD, remove the old HD.
> 8) Boot windows.
> 
> Has anyone done something like this?
> Am I missing any steps?
> 
> Thanks,
> Larry J. Kopenkoskey
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Adam Bultman
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