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 fine, BUT: sometimes the NT bootloader gets pissed. (Now -there's- a shock.) It requires some finagling; see Google if it happens to you. Once done, you could either create a new partition, or, with Partition Magic, expand the current one.
$.02, -Ken On 1 Aug 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > 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, 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) Windows and 2) drives with > differeing geometries (which I don't think dd cares about)? > > TIA, > Kenny > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Tact is just *not* saying true stuff" -- Cordelia Chase > > Kenneth E. Lussier > Sr. Systems Administrator > Zuken, USA > PGP KeyID CB254DD0 > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCB254DD0 > > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** > > ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
