Hi All,
I have a question that, personally, I find somewhat amusing... I have a
user that needs a bigger hard drive in his laptop. Naturally, he is
running Win2K (damn sales people...). But, he needs everything moved
from one drive to the other. I was thinking about taking the hard
drives,
Yah; works like a charm. Honestly, though, I use cat (eg. cat /dev/source /dev/dest),
-- works great, too, and you don't need to know your source's size, either
-- it just ends when there's no more data. (Also the way I create/write
floppy images.) As for your geometry, all will probably be
On 1 Aug 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
from one drive to the other. I was thinking about taking the hard
drives, plugging them into IDE adapters, connecting them to a regular
PC, booting off of a Linux floppy, and dd-ing on drive onto the other.
Has anyone had any luck doing this with 1)
I would think you could use dd (either from linux or cygwin utils under
windows) to copy drives of the same geometry. With drives of different
geometries you will most likely have more difficulty. I won't say it's
not possible, but, I would guess that would be more steps involved and
not having
