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 done it, I don't know what those steps would be. I would sure like to know in case I need to do it someday, however.
-Andy "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. *****************************************************************
