Thanks for the follow ups. Here's an update.
I had a chance to use the bootable CD I made from the g4u iso image download. I suspect its not much more than a bootable linux cd that issues the dd command. But in any case it worked perfectly for both OS's. It took about 20 mins to copy the entire 40 GBs to the new drive. Partitions were exactly the same size. I haven't worried about resizing them yet. Process went as follows: Installed 80GB Hitachi as slave on the same IDE chain as the 40 GB Western Digital. Booted off of the g4u CD. issued the copydisk wd0 wd1 command. Waited for copy to finish. Turned off system. Removed both drives from IDE chain. Rejumpered 80 GB Hitachi as master. Reinstalled on the end of the IDE cable (rather than middle). Booted to a working system with new drive. I did find a high level of fragmentation on the NTFS partition. I suspect though that this is the same on the original 40 GB drive. I'll check and update if this is not the case. g4u can also do disk imaging using an ftp server. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:01 am Subject: Re: Transfer Hard Drive Image from 40GB WD to 80GB Hitachi > At 15:15 09/13/2005 -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > >On 9/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Yes, Both drives can be installed in the machine at the same > time. I'd > >> be alright with just transferring the image as is and then using > the>> tools in SuSE or XP to resize the partitions. Or increasing > both>> proportionately would be okay too. > > > >To copy the image as is, including boot and partition information, > just># dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1M > > > >Your drive names may vary. I think this should take less than 10 > >minutes for 40GB. There are more efficient ways do to it, but the > >effort to find them could take more than 10 minutes. > > While this might work for a Linux system, I'm not sure how Windows > willrespond. Although since it's a new disk you can do the > experiment and lose > nothing but some time. However, it will take about half an hour for > the dd. > I transfer 60GB for my backups in 40 minutes. > > Because of the Windows migration requirement, you might consider > getting(Norton, Symantic, ???) Ghost, which can handle the NTFS > resizing. For the > Linux part, you can just create the partitions, mkfs.xxx (for > whicheverfile system) and then copy everything over to the right > place. Use the > rescue disk to rerun LILO/GRUB and your done. > > Gus > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
