> Erik> Windoze keeps some kind of information about the system (I'm > Erik> not exactly sure what) in hidden files at the *end* of the > Erik> drive (partition) it lives on. Instead of using cp -a, > Erik> which may miss those files, try dd and specify that it copy > Erik> every single block from the old partition to the new > Erik> (checking for bad blocks as it goes, of course). > > dd. I'm always a little scared of dd. The drives aren't identical, > and partition on the old drive is bigger than the partition on the new > drive; had to downsize MS cause I rarely use it. Can I work around > this? Are the block sizes in dd the block sizes of the drive; if so, > will I need to specify different block sizes? ? So many > questions....
That's too bad the aren't exactly the same. If you have two drives with exactly the same geometry you can do 'cat /dev/olddrive > /dev/newdrive'. No joke. It works. Boot loader and all. sach _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
