On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote:
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= From: "fasi74" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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= Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:46 PM
= Subject: [expert] copying whole harddrive !
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= > I want to copy my whole harddrive including MBR & all operating systems
= > present on that drive.
= > On an harddrive that is not as same as this harddrive in capacity.
= > is there some software like this ?
= >
= If it is a new hd retail box there should be software on the included floppy
= that will do it. I know that IBM and Maxtor have it. Also you can check your
= hd web site for the program.
= Commercial programs that will do the job are Ghost by Symantec and Drive
= Copy/ Drive Image by PowerQuest.
=
= Charles
=
I've done this with floppies before, but never with hard drives, so I'm
not guaranteeing anything at all... you're on your own with the results.
Having said that, you might try
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=XXXX
where:
if - is the source drive
of - is the destination drive
bs - is the block size. 512 bytes is standard wtih unices
count - is the number of blocks to copy. This will prevent
overwriting too far on the destination.
Get more info (and options) wth "man dd".
I'd be very curious to know if this works for you.
hth,
kf
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